DUKABOR (Krem)

(Pynursla - IN)
25.181900,91.812500
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 28/03/2016

NOTE 1: Dukabor near (±500 m) N25°10'45": E091°09'45" (Survey of India sheet 78-O/16 edition 1912). ba duk (Khasi, adjective), »poor; needy« (SINGH, N 1906: 73); »bare« (BLAH, E 2007: 26). ba ai bór (SINGH, N 1906: 2), "ba aibor" (SINGH, N 1920: 12), ”ba ai-bór” (SINGH, N 1906: 2) »accessary; accessory« (SINGH, N 1920: 4) ka bór (Khasi, noun), binomial: ”ka bór ka sór” (SINGH, N 1906: 14), »the power; an influence; an authority« (SINGH, N 1906: 14); »the ability; an agent; the comprehension; the potency« (SINGH, N 1920: 1, 12, 83, 391); »the power, the force« (OLDHAM, T 1854 / 1984 appendix C: lxvii); »a horn« (BLAH 2007: 136).

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 28/03/2016

A horizontal cave near Nongjri lies at an unidentified spatial relation (not far from) to Krem –>Kurdrot and on the ridge opposite of Krem –>Lubon. ETYMOLOGY: No autochthonous, indigenous or locally known name has been identified for this cave called after the somewhat nearby village of Dukabor (note 1). CAVE DESCRIPTION: Having arrived at the cave entrance »… we immediately started to survey and actually found the three skeletons. The matter was a bit haunting. A few survey legs later the cave [survey] is finished« (Weidmann, Y1998.02.21 Mss). CULTURAL HISTORY - human use: Three bodies of executed insurgents are said to have been discarded in the cave in about 1993. A photography of their bones (Yvo Weidmann in ARBENZ & WEIDMANN 2003: 13) was executed on 21st February 1998.

Documents

Bibliography 28/03/2016

Histoire

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1998 February 21: Yvo Weidmann and Brian D. Kharpran Daly, assisted by Ian E. Chandler, Raphael Warjri and Gurjinder Singh, guided by Langspah Rynkhun, visited, entered and mapped, then explored and surveyed, and eventually photographed a selection of views. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 28/03/2016

Cavités proche

Distance (km)NomLongueur (m)Profondeur (m)
0.3KURDROT (Krem)
0.3MAWKANONG, Wah Thyllong (Krem)
0.6LUBON - LUM BNAI (Krem)
0.6LUM BNAI (Krem)
0.8WAH THYLLONG, Nongjri - Therria (Krem)
0.9BHUBAN CAVE (Jones 1827)
0.9BRAHMINES à Sylhet, Inde (Caverne des)
1.5PRIANG, Nongjri - Therria (Krem)
1.6KHRIANG (Krem)