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[Promo video for "ASHE" Caribbean performing arts ensemble]

Description: Video footage promoting ASHE: the Caribbean performing arts ensemble of Jamaica. The video shows cultural dancing, tribal wear, and music under a narration providing descriptive details of each section and group. The tape was provided by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in regards to the Dance with the Carribeans event hosted by the Dallas and Fort Worth West Indian Community.
Date: February 24, 2001
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mitotiliztli Yaoyollohtli group photo]

Description: A photograph of the performance group Mitotiliztli Yaoyollohtli arranged for a group photo. They are wearing their full regalia with penachos, feather headdresses, and chachayotls, seed leggings. In the front are two children and one of the performers is holding a baby.
Date: August 8, 2009
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Oral History with Helena Hong and Elena Triginer]

Description: Oral History with Helena Hong and Elena Triginer regarding the adoption of Helena Hong from Heilongjiang Province, Hegang to Barcelona Spain. Helena speaks about her childhood in China and how she came to live in the orphanage and Elena describes her decision to adopt and particularly to adopt an older child. Helena also shares how she established contact with the family she lived with in China through social media and her decision to not maintain contact at the time of the interview. They both… more
Date: 2015~
Duration: 41 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Hong, Helena & Triginer, Elena
Partner: St. Edward’s University

[Woman in Front of Display]

Description: Photograph of a woman onstage in front of a large display featuring four skulls and an ear of cor with various vegetables, foods, and drinks next to them; there are two poems (in Nahuatl, left, and Spanish, right) and some drawings on the wall in the background.
Date: 1992
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[Correspondence Ledger]

Description: Ledger containing handwritten copies of letters sent by H. Kempner in English (front of book) and Yiddish (back of book) as well as various other personal notes and accounts.
Date: 1883~
Creator: Kempner, H.
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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[Saniei Family Videos, No. 7 - A Message Home to Family in Iran]

Description: This home movie excerpt documents a Saniei family gathering. In this footage, Abbus, Ahmad, and Saeed (Michael) converse in Farsi, watch television (soccer and Gilligan's Island), and cook. They speak directly to the camera delivering messages for their families back home in Iran.
Date: May 31, 1992
Duration: 53 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Saniei
Partner: UNT Media Library
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Multi-Ethnic Bird Guide of the Sub-Antarctic Forests of South America - Recording

Description: The subantarctic forests of South America are the world’s southernmost forested ecosystems. The birds have sung in these austral forests for millions of years; the Yahgan and Mapuche peoples have handed down their bird stories from generation to generation for hundreds of years. In Multi-ethnic Bird Guide of the Subantarctic Forests of South America, Ricardo Rozzi and his collaborators present a unique combination of bird guide and cultural ethnography. The bird songs, names and stories record… more
Date: April 15, 2010
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo; Massardo, Francisca; Anderson, Christopher B.; McGehee, Steven; Clark, George; Egli, Guillermo et al.
Partner: UNT Press

[Yiddish Minutes]

Description: Handwritten minutes for the Ahavath Sholom Congregation in Fort Worth, Texas. The minutes are written in Yiddish, the native tongue of the members. The minutes discuss a legal dispute with a "chazzan," or a prayer leader who sued the congregation.
Date: October 6, 1895
Creator: Levenson, Ben
Partner: Fort Worth Jewish Archives
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