DOBES Archive

A first collection of Puma kin terms, with basic analysis.
How Paruhang and Sumnima came in this world is narrated descriptively including the marriage event and life cycle of them. In addition to this, unique and interesting acts performed by them are also stated clearly.
This is a myth about the culture hero Hetcakupa, Tongwama and Khiwama who were orphans.Hetcakupa was the younger brother of Tongwama and Khiwama. This is a version of a widely known and culturally important myth
This session contains the general phonological sketch of Puma. It's a draft!
The singers sing a romantic song. The people sing this kind of the song in the occasion of the Puma Phagu festival.
This song is about the feeling when leaving home.
In this session, the singer has sung about the feeling when he is unable to meet his girlfriend.
Hetcakupa who was an orphan spent his life with great sorrow and difficulties.Once a time ,one of the ghost named Coŋroŋdhipma took him far away and she made a plan to kill and eat the boy.How the orphan escaped from there what happend to the ghost etc is interestingly described here.