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

2751. Reference : MM-1-18-272

Meeting

| August 18, 1960. The village headman called the villagers for meeting on various topics. 1) The villagers must report the number of pigs in their possession to the district authorities. 2) If the village headman did not perform well enough, the members might relieve him of his position. 3) ‘Kathin’ [religious ceremony of presenting robes to the Buddhist monks - translator] will be featured in the district in November. 4) Each village must send three people to help with the construction of the roads and to transport sand. The troops would enter the area. If people did not cooperate, they would be arrested and accused of being a communist. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Meeting

2752. Reference : MM-1-18-274

Meeting

| September 2, 1960. The village headman called the villagers for meeting on various topics. 1) Mai Kham resigned from membership, (Housing Development?) because in his opinion he was too old to work. 2) The headman asked for assistance from villagers to help with the construction of the road to Bandon. 3) Mai Tun shared information about the situation in Laos. September 8, 1960. The village headman called a meeting on the following: 1) to submit a sample of rice to the district authorities; 2) announcement of 10 people to help building roads on the following day. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Meeting

2753. Reference : MM-1-18-275

Inspection to the village path

| September 8, 1960. Mo Caru:n and the headman inspected village paths. They warned people not to block the pavement so that that the fire truck could easily enter to the village in the case of a fire. The road needed to cut through Thung Phi Ban. Mo Caru:n promised the villagers that this would be take into consideration at the meeting. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Inspection to the village path

2754. Reference : MM-1-18-276

Prachum evening

| September 15, 1960. The headman called the villagers for meeting on various topics. 1) Assistance to help with repairing of the roads. 2) Announcement of a murderer. 3) Supplying people with more quality samples of rice and bean. | Punch card

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Prachum evening

2755. Reference : MM-1-18-277

Meeting

| December 8, 1960. The village headman called the villagers for meeting on issues including to coping with the fires. 1) When a fire broke out, do not panic and to watch their assets at home. Thieves would profit from the situation. 2) The headman provided fire equipment for home use. 3) He requested that the villagers decorate the front of their houses with flags for the occasion of Constitution Day. 4) There was not enough pork in town. If anyone wanted to have pork, they were asked to kill their pig. 5) Persuading villagers to grow flax. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Meeting

2756. Reference : MM-1-18-278

Meeting

| January 13, 1960. The village headman called the villagers for a meeting on various topics, including 1) The villagers had to send their children to attend school at the age of 8 years old. 2) A survey of animals, carts and guns in the possession of the villagers. 3) The labor recruitment of priests to help with the civil work of the village raised an unpleasant issue with the villagers - it was like that the action of a communist country. Many people felt they did not have to worry about the communist invasion because the Americans would assist Thailand. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Meeting

2757. Reference : MM-1-18-279

Meeting

| January 17, 1961. The headman announced to the villagers that now communists were in a fight on the border of Mae Sai district. Everyone had to monitor any strangers to the district. However, several days later, Moerman asked the lieutenant about the fight, and he did not acknowledge the existence of any communist struggle in Burma. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Meeting

2758. Reference : MM-1-21-425

Second class lawyers.

| Feb 9, 1969. The Bar Council announced some changes to the regulations for the Lawyer Class 2. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Second class lawyers.

2759. Reference : MM-1-21-426

Organization of lawyers.

| Dec. 7. The Bar Council was planning to allow a written test for Lawyer Class 2 in every province. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Organization of lawyers.

2760. Reference : MM-1-21-427

Lawyers.

| December 4, 1968. The differences between Lawyer Class 1 and Class 2. A Lawyer Class 1 must have completed a Bachelor of Law and passeda the Bar test, which allowed them to conduct a lawsuit in all provinces across the country. A Lawyer Class 2, however, was a person who had graduated in Law, but could not conduct lawsuits throughout the country. | Punch card

by : Michael Moerman

Lawyers.