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)

471. Reference : MM-1-16-72

| A ritual for the Buddhist holy day at the temples; making dessert and preparing candles and flowers to offer to the monk. | Punch card

472. Reference : MM-1-16-73

| The Kinsalak ceremony of each village. Villagers will prepare an offering for each ceremony, such as a ‘tree’ made from cash, cigarettes, notebooks and food. | Punch card

473. Reference : MM-1-16-74

| Sala Ngen was the first one to move to Ban Don. | Punch card

474. Reference : MM-1-16-75

| In previous times, Tai Lue men and women used to blacken their teeth and had red lips from chewing betel nuts; nowadays they want white teeth. | Punch card

475. Reference : MM-1-16-76

| There was a big flood in the village, so people moved to the head of village. Rice, ducks, and chickens were lost in large numbers. | Punch card

476. Reference : MM-1-16-77

| Kongseng has never been unwell or sick after childbirth, and she had 14 children. | Punch card

477. Reference : MM-1-16-78

| In previous times, were no injection doctors. They arrived to stay permanently about 10 years ago. | Punch card

478. Reference : MM-1-16-79

| There were no shops during the wars. There were no Chinese shops because the government feared the Chinese were spies. After the end of the war, when the Chinese Ho (one of Chinese ethnic groups) arrived in Ban Phead, there were only two shops. | Punch card

479. Reference : MM-1-16-80

| Villager bought food from the market, but some days go to gather mushrooms and bamboo shoots from the hills. Some households cultivate a vegetable garden for their own consumption. | Punch card

480. Reference : MM-1-16-81

| Preparation for Kathin ceremony, place, offering, and responsibility of each person in ceremony | Punch card