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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 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

From cassette label: "includes Rombour pature discussion see Tape 16 for completion"

Audio of Rombour Uchow,
Grom starts with Baraman's song.

Tape #B of Rombour Sariek, second tape in set of 4 tapes

Tape #B, second in set of 4 tapes.
Side 1 - formal praise ishtikek (ish-ti-tek) on the feast host's ancestors given by a particularly good orator, Bakhdur. The tape is set to the place where this praise begins, and translations are in Field Book #6 pp. 98-101. The speech at the end of Side 1 announces the host's plans to build a new menstrual hut, and is given by the hereditary priest of Rombour, Baraman. Translation in Field Book #6 pp. 114.

Tape #C, third tape in set of 4.
Side 1 - [000] (tape start) is a speech by the feast's host, Kata Sing, thanking those who helped him. See Book #7, pp.4-9 for translations.

Audio of Chitrali Sitar (Pakistani long-necked lute instrument), recorded in Chitral Bazaar.
A drazyeilik song (also spelled drazeiylik or drazaiylik) is an epic song about social history.

Chitrali Sitar music

Audio of community discussion on access to land grazing & tree harvest
side A (3/4): discussion on Rombour land and trees
side A (1/4) & side B: Waigal Brun convert to Islam

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.

Accounts of festivals, such as the Milk Drinking Festival, Big Spring Festival of Bombores and the Little Spring Festival of Rombour and a woman's funeral in Krakal

Account of a Bomouret funeral, a Rombour feast and the "merit feast of the sacred male goat."

Account of a "sacred male goat sacrifice merit feast" and an explanation of all possible feasts in Kalash society, as well as personalized love songs by Gulzaman Shah

Personal journal entries are written on the first few pages of the book, plus Kalash translations corresponding to tapes 35-37

Orissa (3 articles):

• Notes GDK Tribal Areas
• Temple potters of Puri, Louise [Cart?]
• Bengali Brass Casting GDK

Asiatic Steppe-Pastoralists
1 article

Chinese Turkistan - Indo-European Mummies
3 articles

Kalash, Pakistan
3 articles

The Gonds of Southern Region' by Dr. D.R. Pratap
1 article