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Latitude

28.12485

Longitude

94.35585

Start Date

2015-01-24

End Date

2015-01-24

A wide-ranging conversation, beginning with a discussion about multiple-cropping in hillside cultivation. This conversation is interrupted by some birds singing nearby. Tamor Mize then goes on to discuss these birds, called pəku-pəruk, who are said to stay in groups of around 10 to 20 members, and which have white feathers on their heads. This is followed by an explanation of the difference between rɨgbi 'fallow field' and rɨgbɨn 'field under cultivation'. The speaker explains further that sometimes it takes ten years for a field left fallow to become ready for cultivation again. He explains how certain trees, such as taan 'unknown tree variety' helps one to distinguish fertile soil from infertile soil. This conversation is followed by a discussion of taatar mushrooms, and Tamor gives some names of edible and inedible mushrooms which are found in the Riga area. This is next followed by a discussion about an early British settlement, which was apparently situation exactly in the spot where the speaker was standing. He shows some pits which were reportedly dug by British soldiers to serve as septic tanks. He also mentions a British officer ɨɨlen, probably Williams, who was killed by a man from Komsing village. He points out an area which is cultivated as a field today, and which was used as a British camp called maŋaŋ keem 'Mangang Camp' in the years before Indian independence.

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