DESCRIPTION:
This bit of filming was what you might call "set-up". The previous day, Dibuli Miuli had sung us many Idu Mishmi songs, most of them related to harvest or prayer, and one, which was the lament of a young girl who has no suitors. While sitting at her loom, the girl is calling out to anyone who may hear her, to say that she is as yet unmarried.

When we went to visit her the next day she was weaving at a type of loom that we hadn't seen before, and as we filmed her, we requested her to sing the lament of the young girl. She was really tickled and said, "Well people will think that I am the unmarried young girl."

This is a really tiny excerpt from that song.

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