The Nagas

Chapter Eighteen. A Skirmish with Head-Hunters description of Noklak village books Kalyo Kengyu Noklak Pangsha Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Today we are received with great friendliness in Noklak. T...
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Chapter Eighteen. A Skirmish with Head-Hunters a tour round Noklak village - slate roofs; fortifications books Mills Kalyo Kengyu Noklak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 While Williams and Smith rest in...
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Chapter Eighteen. A Skirmish with Head-Hunters people from Burmese side arrive books Mills Kalyo Kengyu Noklak Ponyo Pangsha Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 As dusk falls, we hear that men from Ponyo h...
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Chapter Nineteen. Making the Peace camp at Chingmei books Chingmei Noklak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (152) Our spacious camp in Chingmei is untold luxury. After the cramped quarters of the last da...
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Chapter Nineteen. Making the Peace negotiators from Pangsha seeking peace books Mongsen/ of Pangsha Sangting/ of Pangsha Mills Chingmei Ponyo Pangsha Tsawlaw Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 "Sah'b, Pan...
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Chapter Nineteen. Making the Peace terms of peace concluded books Mongsen/ of Pangsha Mills Chingmei Pangsha Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The terms of the peace are concluded. Solemnly Mills asks Mo...
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Chapter Nineteen. Making the Peace attending to Mongsen's wound books Mongsen/ of Pangsha Chingmei Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Noticing that Mongsen has a burnt foot, Mills has the wound dressed. T...
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Chapter Nineteen. Making the Peace ethnographic notes on Kalyo Kengyu books Kalyo Kengyu Chingmei Pangsha Ponyo Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 In the course of the conversation we learn the Pangsha pe...
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Chapter Nineteen. Making the Peace freeing the hills from slave-trading books Mills Chingmak/ of Chingmei Chingmei Pangsha Ponyo Tsawlaw Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 When many mugs of rum have passe...
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Chapter Nineteen. Making the Peace costume, hair style and tattoos of men from Ponyo and Tsawlaw books Chingmei Ponyo Tsawlaw Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 In the full light of day we have a better o...
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Chapter Nineteen. Making the Peace Chingmei slave refuses to be freed from Ponyo books Chingmei Ponyo Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 When Chingmak had first met the Ponyo men in Noklak, sheltered behi...
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Chapter Nineteen. Making the Peace farewell gifts of salt and red cloths books Mills Chingmei Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 As farewell gifts Mills presents the envoys and the other guests with consi...
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Chapter Nineteen. Making the Peace decision to visit Panso books Chingmak/ of Chingmei Chingmei Panso Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The main object of our expedition is achieved, but before (156) ret...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies enthusiastic welcome at Panso books Kalyo Kengyu Panso Yakko Mt. Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (157) As the crow flies, it is only eight miles from Chingmei to ...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies camp outside Panso books Kalyo Kengyu Panso Pangsha Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 We are not afraid of any resistance, yet the enthusiastic welcome of the inhab...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies photography and curiosity about it books Kalyo Kengyu Panso Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 When I begin taking a few photographs among the crowd collected outsid...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies dangers of fieldwork books Williams Mills Kalyo Kengyu Panso Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Mills and Williams are horrified when they hear I mingled with the cr...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies social life of Kalyo Kengyus; padded weapons for internal fighting books Kalyo Kengyu Panso Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 In Panso I have at last an opportunity...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies heads of the enemy books Kalyo Kengyu Panso Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 But these Panso men are not always as unsuccessful as in their recent encounter with P...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies great log drum in Panso books Kalyo Kengyu Panso Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The great log drum, almost filling the morung, is very similar to those we have s...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies warriors dance in Panso; ceremonial dress books Kalyo Kengyu Panso Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The great dance in honour of the victors is soon to begin, and ...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies photographic techniques [this paragraph only appears in the 1939 edition] books Nlamo Kalyo Kengyu Panso Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 [It is a lovely sunny aft...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies feast continued all nigh;, drink books Kalyo Kengyu Panso Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Long after we have returned to our camp the dance continues, finishing f...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies way back through Sangpurr; forked posts; danger of panjis books Sangpurr Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 On the way back from Panso, we pass through the village o...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies return of the slaves to their parents at Chentang books Chentang Kejok Saochu Pangsha Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 At Chentang we find more than one surprise, ...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies Tuensang village, among Chang Nagas; murdered or seduced women's hair worn by men books Chang Tuensang Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The last stretch of the jou...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies back into administered territory; division of spoils books Dikhu R. Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 After several long marches, crossing more than one 5,000 feet ...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies tensions over distribution of skulls books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 But the other part of our booty is much more important and there is a strained tension ...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies some groups want heads for ceremonial purposes, others won't use them books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 By no means all the porters take this point of view. T...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies promise to bring back heads books Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 These discussions naturally make me think of my Wakching friends, and my promise to bri...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies handing over one skull to Lhotas and Rengmas books Lhota Rengma Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 I hand over one of the heads to the Lhotas and Rengmas, telling th...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies to Ao village of Longmisa books Nakhu Ao Longmisa Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 As we cross the Dikhu next morning, a fine mist lies over the valley, giving the...
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Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies Smith's bungalow in Mokokchung; news of the abdication of the King books Mills Smith Williams Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 We welcome the small corner of civil...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites rumours and young men from Tamlu come for heads books Konyak Tamlu Pangsha Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (164) The news of my coming, and more particularly of t...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites head-receiving feast in Tamlu books Konyak Tamlu Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Tamlu holds a feast in the evening, but in spite of all the singing and dancing, ...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites delays in head receiving feast books Konyak Tamlu Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 I know there will be dancing and feasting tomorrow too, and the boys could start...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites woken by Shankok and Wakching friends; splitting up heads books Shankok Dzeamang Konyak Wanching Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 In my sleep I hear voice...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites distributing parts of heads to various villages books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 First I satisfy the boys from each of the villages of Namsang, Kongan...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites the most precious piece of the skull round the eyes books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 "Shankok, your morung has just been rebuilt, you are most in need...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites setting off towards Wakching books Shankok Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Immediately after breakfast we start. We are a long procession, for besides the ...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites crossing the Dikhu river on bad bridge books Konyak Dikhu R. Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The hanging bridge has fallen into bad repair since last I was here, ...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites conversation with Dzeamang about his marriage books Dzeamang Konyak Chingtang Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Dzeamang and I go together up the hill. He is more t...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites head-hunter's welcome in Wanching books Konyak Wanching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Gradually the bold head-hunters catch up with us, and soon I find myself c...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites return to Wakching books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Then the warriors all go dancing to the house of the chief, but my Wakching friends are a...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites head-hunting dance in Wakching books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (168) Excitement stirs in the procession as we climb the stone steps. There a...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites rituals associated with head taking books Konyak Wakching Tamlu Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 These words are believed to compel the souls of the dead to call t...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites dancing and massive rituals of head-taking described books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The men of each morung dance for a while on the great p...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites further rituals of head-taking books Thepong morung/ Wakching Chinyang/ of Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Night has fallen, and the elde...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites a piece of skull for Oukheang morung books Oukheang morung/ Wakching Yongem/ of Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 After so many nights in d...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites starting to prepare for dance books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Life begins to stir in the village. It is taboo to work on the fields today, a...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites face-painting of boys before dance to receive heads books Bala morung/ Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 In front of the Bala morung the yo...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites shaving of men's heads before head dance; colour symbolism books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The men shave each other's heads, first wetting t...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites head-receiving dance at Wakching and processions books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The joyous spirit has also taken hold of the women, and alt...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites further processions and dancing books Shankok Yonglong/ of Wakching Thepong morung/ Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The sun stands high i...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites the great head-hunting dance described in detail books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It is not until late in the afternoon that the great head-h...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites Shankok's rich ornaments worn for head dance books Shankok Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Shankok stands out from all the other young men of the ...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites concentric circles of dancers in head dance books Chinyang/ of Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Even the smallest boys, as yet too young t...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites further head-hunting dances in the future books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Today's ceremonies by no means end the head-hunting feast. The tro...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites preparations for later dances, ceremonial costumes books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The weeks before this final feast are full of preparation...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites functions of head-hunting and effects of stopping it books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Thus the bringing in of a head not only furthers in a m...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites decision to tour other villages to see head-hunting ceremonies books Shankok Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The feasts in Wakching are not the on...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites being entertained by Ang of Longkhai books Mauwang/ of Longkhai Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Once more I am in Longkhai. The light of the flick...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites telling the story of the Pangsha raid; Nagas horrified by slave-taking books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Now is the time to speak, and with se...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites dancing at night books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Suddenly comes the sound of music. What is that song out there in the night? Stepping into ...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites Haimendorf joins in dance to celebrate head-hunting books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 "Friend, you must dance too," he urges me. "You have bro...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites dancing and singing in Longkhai books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The dance is not difficult. A simple sequence of steps, endlessly repeated, ...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites girls chewing leaves as they dance books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The girls have prepared small parcels of pan leaves to chew, and they pre...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites to Hungphoi, Wangla and Oting for head-hunting dances books Konyak Hungphoi Wangla Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 From Longkhai I go to Hungphoi, Wangla, a...
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Chapter Twenty-one. Head-Hunting Rites ancient language of Konyak songs difficult to interpret books Chingai Konyak Hungphoi Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 During the feasts it is not always easy to d...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry do natives think and feel like western people ? books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (179) To record ceremonies and ritual, to discover the basic elements of a trib...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry breaking the barrier with Konyaks; fieldwork books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 This was exactly what happened in Wakching. The gaonbura were only...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry fondness for informant Shankok books Shankok Shouba Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Of all the men of Wakching, I am fondest of Shankok, the son of t...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry Shankok and his life history books Shankok Shouba Shikna Shonga Thepong morung/ Wakching Bala morung/ Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Last y...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry marriage and love affairs of Shankok books Shankok Shouba Shikna Henlong Shonga Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 By this time Shankok had grown to man...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry marital problems of Shankok continued books Shankok Shikna Shouba Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 There was only one way out of the situation. He wou...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry Shankok's character and humour and fancy for girls books Shankok Konyak Chingtang Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 In spite of all these troubles, Shankok retains his...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry sexual affairs between boys and girls books Konyak Chingtang Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 He shows me the room in the chief's house where the girls sleep, each in...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry sexual affairs and rights; payment of tribute for protection books Thepong morung/ Wakching Konyak Chingtang Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The next mornin...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry Shankok's miserable love affair books Shankok Shikna Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Several weeks latter Shankok appears in the evening, his face fu...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry erotic dreams despite sexual freedom books Shankok Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Considering the sexual freedom among the unmarried and even the yo...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry sexual etiquette and strict morality despite freedom books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 We would of course, be quite wrong to assume that because the Konya...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry sexual conversational etiquette books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Between men and women of intermarrying clans or morung, there prevails on the other hand...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry joking relationships, flirting; forbidden sexual partners; incest books Shankok Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 For a young Konyak the girls of his village fa...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry difficulties of language and translation and variations books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Poems and song give us often a clearer insight into a people's s...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry knowledge of very difficult language superficial books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Though I recorded the outline of a grammar and a vocabulary of the dial...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry importance of songs in Naga culture books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Yet songs are the principle and recognized medium through which the individual as we...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry a Naga song books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Our girl friends The red berries of the ben tree Many berries on the branches. Porcupine and hedgehog Co...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry courtship song between boys and girls books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Once the boys are in the dormitory and sit in the bamboo benches by a pleasant fir...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry analysis of love songs books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 But many of the boys who paint so dull a picture of married life are themselves married, though t...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry songs about daily life books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Another type of song hummed by the boys as they sit round the fires in their morung and play on t...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry absence of working chants books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 A curious gap in the range of Konyak songs is the absence of working chants. Nagas of most oth...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry dance songs or chants books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Very different from songs sung by individuals or small groups of boys or girls in the intimate atm...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry example of song by Oukheang morung books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Thus the men of the Oukheang morung of Wakching, whose claim that their morung is the...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry analysis of Konyak songs and tales books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 In this song we find a trait typical of most Konyak poetry: tales are not described b...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry taunt song about a rival morung books Oukheang morung/ Wakching Thepong morung/ Wakching Konyak Wakching Kongan Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Just as the Konyaks s...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry implicit taunt songs books Konyak Wakching Wanching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 While in this taunting song the event singled out for ridicule described in broad...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry story illustrating tricks played on rivals books Konyak Wakching Wanching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 "Once upon a time the Wanching men inquired from the Wakchi...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry dance poems in praise of founders of a morung books Oukheang morung/ Wakching Angban morung/ Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Dance poems in ...
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Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry love songs and lyric poems and their context; romantic love books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The violence of emotions aroused by the unlawful appropriati...
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Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival personal decorations brought out before the dance books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (197) The platform of the chief's house is filled with ...
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