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)

461. Reference : MM-1-16-62

| Courtship of Tai Lue men and women. Men visit the woman at home in the evening for chatting. | Punch card

462. Reference : MM-1-16-63

| Local animals: ox, buffalo, horse, chicken, pig. They are raised as labor and as a food source. | Punch card

463. Reference : MM-1-16-64

| In previous times, the class difference between the people in the village was not very large. | Punch card

464. Reference : MM-1-16-65

| The household numbers in Ban Phaed village increased from 22 to between 50 and 60. | Punch card

465. Reference : MM-1-16-66

| The father of the village headman usually pays respect to the altar with an image of Buddha, before going to sleep. | Punch card

466. Reference : MM-1-16-67

| In previous times, a monk would spend each day copying manuscripts onto palm leaves. It was both for worship and to learn Tham. | Punch card

467. Reference : MM-1-16-68

| Most of the Tai Lue assimilated with the Yuan (native people). The Tai Lue in Chiengmuon do not speak the Tai Lue language anymore, instead the northern Thai language is spoken. They don’t weave cloth for household use and have short hair. | Punch card

468. Reference : MM-1-16-69

| The usefulness of cloth - weaving and dying it with natural color. The influence of central Tai culture on the Tai Lue culture. | Punch card

469. Reference : MM-1-16-70

| The price of meat - pork, duck, and chicken is available at the market, but there is no beef. If an animal (ox, buffalo, pig) died, it would be slaughtered and distributed among the people in village. | Punch card

470. Reference : MM-1-16-71

| The process involved in leaving the Buddhist monkhood. | Punch card