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Audio of Bomboret Joeshi. "Bomboret" refers to Bumburet valley, Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.
Tape 1 Gatch (sacred song - sung in a basket. Muffled, not for women)
Balimine/Mahondao

Audio of Bomboret Joeshi.

Side 1 - myth of how the Kalash god Mahaneo won Bomboret Valley over the god Balumein. See Field Book #3 pp. 31-36 for translations.
Side 2 - examples of women's voices and fast dance music. See Field Book #3 pp 41-46 for translations.

May 13: Chear pipik.
May 14: Batrik palowjow.

Side 2 - At digital counter [322] is gondolia (gon-do-lia), a song sung at the Spring Festival which gives the history of Kafir occupation of the Chitral area. Followed by a shaman's trance. See Field Note Book # 3 pp. 26-29 for translations.

Audio of Bomboret and Saratzari. "Bomboret" refers to Bumburet valley, Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.

Both sides of this tape record the Winter Solstice Festival "Chau Maus". During the solstice festival, several different celebrations are enacted, three different ones of which are included on this tape. See Field Note Book #1, pp. 83-85 for translations.

Taking the herds to the high pastures in spring, after Joeshi' Spring Festival

Spring Festival, Gona Joeshi,' (Big Spring Festival) in the Rombour Valley

Spring Festival, Gona Joeshi,' (Big Spring Festival) in the Bomboret Valley

Start of the Spring Festival, Chear Pi-pik' (Milk drink-drink) - First milk of the spring season. Also, Spring Festival, Kui Parik' (Valley going up ceremony). Babies born in the preceding year are considered polluted and can't go up the valley (up is pure) until, wearing their new hats, they are ceremonially carried uphill by their mothers.

Snow Hockey Gol' in Bomboret

Images of Skedans graveyard masses, including landscape images

Kathi, Mer, Rabari and Ahir Tribals of Saruashtra District, Gujarat State

Saora Tribals, Ganjam District, Orissa state geography, people and villages

Images of the ethnographic collection on display at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

Accompanying museum catalogue

Uchow Fall Harvest or Cheese Festival in Rombour

Building the Gods' Chariots (A filmstrip and Resource Manual) designed and produced by Gillian Darling Kovanic at Capilano College

The series consists primarily of material accumulated and/or created by Gillian Darling Kovanic during her travels abroad, both as a student of anthropology and a filmmaker. This series includes field research conducted by Kovanic with the Kalash in Pakistan, the Kom/Kati tribes in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Orissa in India, the Haida on the Queen Charlotte Islands [Haida Gwaii], British Columbia and the Kwakwaka’wakw in Alert Bay, British Columbia. Much of her fieldwork is made up of a study of the languages and cultural practices of the people being studied.

Included in the series are eleven field notebooks, a handwritten Kalash’a dictionary, a notebook containing information on the ethnographic materials collected by Darling, which now reside with the Royal Ontario Museum, and approximately 4502 photographs, including slides, negatives, prints and digital photos. Also included are a number of academic and popular articles collected by Kovanic, which compliment her field research, including a unique, handwritten article by Wazir Ali Shah, secretary to the last ruler of Chital, Mehtar, in 1977, which was written after the original manuscript was lost. The series also contains published material, comprised of a teaching kit titled “Kalash Bread-making: From Field to Feast” and the Wakhi Language Book by Haqiqat Ali.

Images of Rajasthan, India

Images of the Queen Charlotte Islands

Images of a slideshow given by Gillian Darling Kovanic titled "Potlatch: The Challenge of Wealth." Also included are images of a potlatch being held in Alert Bay, British Columbia