Year 1958-1961

Scope and content :

1958-1961. The first field work trip of Moerman in Thailand. He spent almost 3 years to collected field data about the Lue society, tradition, culture, and daily life of Tai Lue community at Ban Phaed, Payao province. 3295 records of slide, photograph, punch card, letter, notebook, typescript, and map.

Repository : SAC

Extent and medium : 3295 records of slide, photograph, punch card, letter, notebook, typescript, and map.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer : Donated by Michael Moerman, 2005.

System of arrangemant : The series is divided base on the periods of field work in Thailand.

Condition governing accessible and reproduce : Some restriction on access. To respect in intellectual property right, the original material (hard copy) may not allowed to access. Please contact staff if you need more information.

Creative Commons License : Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

Traditional Knowledge License : Traditional Knowledge Attribution Non-Commercial (TK A-NC)

Language : English/Thai

Script : English/Thai

Rule or convention : Collection, series and file level description based on ISAD(G)

730

Slide

41

Photograph

2433

Punchcard

51

Letter

38

Notebook

1

Typescript

1

Map

2291. Reference : MM-1-21-604

Chalermchai and foreigners

| February 3 Chalermchai talked about working with foreigners. In his opinion, the Thais who worked with foreigners served them like servants and the foreigners had never paid respect to them. In addition, their thoughts and conducts were sometimes hard to understand. For example, some of them used images of the head of Buddha to decorate their house. Many foreigners mistakenly thought that the King was a playboy, because he played the saxophone. On the contrary, he played the saxophone with a group of students, or the people. He was a king who had worked hard in Thailand and profoundly loved the country. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Chalermchai and foreigners

2292. Reference : MM-1-21-605

Observation at a kindergarten in Chiang Mai

| November 20, 1968. Moerman accompanied a teacher who was bringing children to the music education room. The teacher and the children sang there. Later, students came to join the session and they were asked to play clapping games. The students in primary school wore Boy Scout uniforms. As they sang they clapped, so that the kindergarten class stood and moved parts of their bodies according to the rhythm of the music. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Observation at a kindergarten in Chiang Mai

2293. Reference : MM-1-21-606

Observation at a kindergarten in Chiang Mai

| November 18. In the morning, students stood up to pay their respect to the national flag. Then they did exercise training. The children walked in rows and went to their classroom according to the march of the music. Moerman went to observe a class, a kindergarten class made up of the youngest children. Teachers taught the children to stand face-to-face in front of each other. They taught the children to carefully draw with crayons and admired their work. Later, the teacher read the story of the three piglets to the children. Sometimes the children cried or fought with each other. But the teacher could handle the situation. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Observation at a kindergarten in Chiang Mai

2294. Reference : MM-1-21-607

Observation at a kindergarten in Chiang Mai

| November 12, 1968. Mary Ann went to a provincial kindergarten where Mrs. Bupim Nimanhemindra was the principal. Moerman observed the students and their activities. The activites were similar, but the difficulty of the activities would be increased dependent on their age range. For instance, with coloring skills in the class of the younger students, teachers taught them to hold crayons, while in the class of older children they drew various pictures. They would sing and point to different parts of body. For children in the higher-level class, they danced with a variety of movements. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Observation at a kindergarten in Chiang Mai

2295. Reference : MM-1-21-608

Observation at a kindergarten in Chiang Maiobservations.

| November 8. Children were playing freely with toys, games, and slides. Then the teacher called them to do activities, such as teaching the children how to count from the game, or teaching them to wash their hands etc. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Observation at a kindergarten in Chiang Maiobservations.

2296. Reference : MM-1-21-609

Observation at a kindergarten in Chiang Mai

| November 8, 1968. Moerman asked permission from the principal to observe the kindergarten children. Teachers told them briefly about the everyday life of the children, such as in the morning the children did chants and paid respect to the national flag. Activities would take place in the classroom before returning home. Later, he interviewed the principal about the tuition fee. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Observation at a kindergarten in Chiang Mai

2297. Reference : MM-1-21-610

Observation at a kindergarten in Chiang Mai

| November 20, 1968. Moerman observed the activities of the children in the class. They liked to fight with each other and sang and danced a traditional song, Loy Krathong. 25 Nov 1968. Moerman went to the school and saw children chanting by following the teacher’s words. They taught moral lessons to the children before the class. Later he went to observe the room of the kindergarten, where the teachers checked and cleaned nails and cut the nails of the kids, along with other kinds of activities such as playing train games and playing with puzzles and so on. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Observation at a kindergarten in Chiang Mai

2298. Reference : MM-1-21-611

Meeting at Mung Xua, Saraphi district

| May 19, 1969. The Chief District Officer of Saraphi talked about building roads and bridges. The Headman of the Sub-district talked to Chief District Officer and proposed a merchant to preside over a committee. The police commander also talked to the villagers about various issues. First, he asked them to cooperate with the police to catch a culprit. Second he talked about heroin addict and that it would cause thefts and death. Third, he spoke about the subject of card playing, they could play but not gamble. Fourth, about the deception of women, a bandit gave money to the parents of girls and then took them away. Fifth about gangsters, there were two types: one who was selling heroin and another gambling. Sixth, on illegal gun possession, illegal guns were prohibited because the materials may be dangerous and if the person who possessed them was caught, the penalty would be increased. There are more notes on various issues relating to the locals and law enforcement. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Meeting at Mung Xua, Saraphi district

2299. Reference : MM-1-21-612

Lunch at Phrae

| 19 June 1969. Pending the arrival of the Supreme Court President, the Commander of the police complained about his mother who did not allow him to build fences on their land in Chiang Mai. The commander had been offered land in a good location and affordable to create a post, but instead they bought land that was expensive and undesirable. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Lunch at Phrae

2300. Reference : MM-1-21-613

Driving from Nan to Phrae

| June 19, 1969. Moerman drove from Nan to Phrae. PP, the wife of the superintendent, and others talked about working in Chiang Mai, where the police worked with hardship. A captain was moved from Chiang Mai to Thung Chan because of rice trading. They also talked in general about Mae Hong Son, on issues such as duck eggs during the rainy season costing one baht each, and the assistant of the superintendent who was moved to Mae Hong Son ten years ago. The education official of Mae Hong Son became rich because he lent money to teachers. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Driving from Nan to Phrae