The Nagas

Chapter Eight. The Harvest ceremonial of the first sowing books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The first sowing is a ceremonial sowing, a solemn act performed by a descendant of the vi...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest first sowing; men and women carrying seed-rice to fields books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 From now on you can see men and women hurrying to the fields, t...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest planting taro; importance of taro for Nagas books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Taro, on the other hand, a tubercular fruit found as far away as the islands...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest weeding the rice, hiring help for weeding, women weaving books Shankok Konyak Wakching Chingtang Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 When the luscious green of the young rice cov...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest rain shields worn while weeding; work gangs composed of inter-marrying morungs books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 This keeping pace with the weeds means we...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest feasts at the end of weeding books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (77) At the end of the weeding there are feasts in the field-houses, and these are the grea...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest drunken feast at end of weeding books Meniu/ of Wakching Shankok/ of Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 One evening, as I was coming home with Shankok t...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest drunken revelry books Meniu/ of Wakching Henyong/ of Wakching Liphung/ of Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 "Look, Sahib," whispered Shankok, "the boy ...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest an honour to make a girl sick books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Funnily enough, the boys actually consider it an honour if finally they succeed in making ...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest no reproach for drunken girls books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 I followed at a distance up the hill, curious to see the reactions of the parents of these...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest girls often carry boys home books Shankok Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 "You should see, Sahib," remarked Shankok, smiling, "when the girls entertain the bo...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest parties at the end of weeding books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The end of the weeding is a joyous time, and is celebrated all over the village. Wealthy m...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest preparations for end of weeding feast books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 All morning the household of the host was busy with preparations, the girls indefa...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest uniformity of names books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 One after the other the girls, friends of the daughter of the house, trickled in. I asked one of the...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest girls awaiting boys in party books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The girls chatted eagerly to each other, and after a considerable time had elapsed we heard...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest boys eat food and chew pan at end of weeding feast books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 When at last the boys finished their song, they came into the house, ...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest courtship after weeding party, singing books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 They seemed quite content sitting before the fire, and it was a long time before ...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest young and shy girls books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 I heard next day that the party had lasted the whole night, and the young people had not gone to bed...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest the great village feast at the start of harvest, Ouniebu killing of pigs at Ouniebu festival books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 These small private parties...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest metal taboo in killing pigs for sacrifice books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The use of any metal instrument for slaughtering pigs is strictly taboo. The b...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest exchange of gifts at feasts books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 An exchange of gifts between the families related through marriage is a main feature of the ...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest men and girls serenade and receive gifts at harvest feast books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It was the night of the second feast-day, when the boys went t...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest abolition of head-hunting, so less dancing books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 In the old days the feast of the Ouniebu was brightened by dancing, for the y...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest visit to a field-house; cutting the rice and bringing it home books Dzeamang/ of Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The reaping was in full swing as I w...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest ownership of fields by individuals and morungs books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The majority of the fields are cultivated by individual families, though ...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest reaping the fields, work groups, and threshing rice with feet books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (82) One day, the boys of the Balang morung called to me a...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest shyness of girls makes photography difficult books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Once more the shyness of the girls defeated me; they would run away with sh...
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Chapter Eight. The Harvest old men sitting and watching books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 A hearth had been built in front of the field-house, and here the old men sat comfortably u...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung setting off on tour books Chingai/ of Oting Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (83) All through the rains I had comforted myself with the thought ...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung setting off from Wakching books Tsampio Nlamo Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It was pouring with rain when we started from Wakching. Our porters went a...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung arrival at Tanhai; corpses on platforms books Konyak Tanhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Not a stitch of my clothing was dry when eventually we reached Tanh...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung continue with march books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Slightly drier, we continued our march on a much better path, running straight along the ridge...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung arrival at Punkhung temporary hut built; curiosity of Punkhung people books Konyak Punkhung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It was a pleasant surprise to find ...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung arrival of translator Chingai books Chingai Konyak Punkhung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 That evening the dobashi Chingai arrived in Punkhung, and I was gla...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung Punkhung houses; carvings books Konyak Punkhung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Though the chief of Punkhung is not a "great Ang," but only belongs to the "sma...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung women spinning bark fibre books Konyak Punkhung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It was difficult to write in his dark room, and we went to the open hall at the...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung discussion of marriage customs books Konyak Punkhung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Towards evening the girls with their baskets full of vegetables returned f...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung Haimendorf invited to girls' club books Konyak Punkhung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 If I had unconsciously touched on a sore point, my joke had so amused t...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung songs in the girls' club books Chingai Konyak Punkhung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 When I turned up that evening with Chingai, the girls were still (87) al...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung sweetheart's tokens given to Haimendorf books Konyak Punkhung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 My cigarettes once more found great favour and one of the boys so...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung jokes as Haimendorf leaves girls' club; diary keeping books Konyak Punkhung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It was midnight when I got up to go, but the girls ...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung Konyaks most active at night books Konyak Punkhung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 But the Konyaks are born night birds, and they only begin really to wake up ...
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Chapter Nine. The Girls' Club of Punkhung enjoyment of leisure books Konyak Punkhung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Why exert yourself when it isn't necessary? the Konyak thinks, and apparently he is ...
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Chapter Ten. Paradise in the Jungle through the forest to Oting books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (89) Dense virgin forest covered the low saddle between Punkhung and Oting, the home v...
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Chapter Ten. Paradise in the Jungle thick forest up to Oting books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The village of Oting, in the shade of palms and high clumps of bamboos, was like some dre...
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Chapter Ten. Paradise in the Jungle girls not shy of camera books Chingai/ of Oting Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The people of Oting, acting on Chingai's suggestion, had also built me a...
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Chapter Ten. Paradise in the Jungle scant attire of Oting girls; ear-rings and their significance books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 But the girls of Oting were an unembarrassed and gay...
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Chapter Ten. Paradise in the Jungle sexual affairs in youth books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The girls are not sparing with their favours, nor do they reserve them only for the boys o...
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Chapter Ten. Paradise in the Jungle absence of love magic books Chingai/ of Oting Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The Oting girls, on the other hand, seem to be impervious even (91) to mag...
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Chapter Ten. Paradise in the Jungle relaxed and easy relations between men and women; sex books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 I believe that among the Konyaks the relations between men a...
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Chapter Ten. Paradise in the Jungle domestic life easy and free of stress books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 As a rule the domestic life of the Konyaks is certainly happy. And this is n...
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Chapter Ten. Paradise in the Jungle plentiful land near Oting, and easy house-building techniques books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Life in Oting seems not only singularly happy but al...
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Chapter Ten. Paradise in the Jungle carefree and gay temperament of the Konyaks; absence of crime books Dhakai/ of Oting Photun/ of Oting Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It is certainly th...
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Chapter Ten. Paradise in the Jungle absence of murder and adultery books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Happy Oting people, whose only quarrels concern the faithlessness of women, who can...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs apparent equality of classes books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (94) Watching the people of Oting at work in the village and on the fields, listening to th...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs differences of aristocrats and commoners; marriage prohibitions books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Their daily life does not seem in any way different, the...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs power of the Great Angs books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The position of the so-called "Great Angs" is quite different. These powerful village chiefs, su...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs few real Angs books Dzaknang/ of Oting Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Few of the small vassal chiefs can boast of a spotless genealogy, and even Dzaknang, th...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs social ranks among the Angs books Dzaknang/ of Oting Chingai/ of Oting Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Dzaknang invited me to his house, a long building in a ...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs refusal of girls to marry far away books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The situation was further complicated by the refusal of the girls to marry into villa...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs difficulties of marriage for girls of high rank books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Indeed, when high birth restricts the circle of possible mates, it is di...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs marriages of Ang's children books Chingai/ of Oting Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Chingai, himself of Ang class, confided to me that not only the father but...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs close ties between Angs of various villages; Ang of Mon books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It is a remarkably close tie that unites the Ang families of the...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs simulation of head-hunting raid books Dingdon morung/ Oting Konyak Oting Mon Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 They rested for a short while, and then proceeded to the open ...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs drumming books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 They were hardly human roars that rang through the night, and for the first time in the Naga Hills a cold hand ...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs death rhythms on drum and deference to Ang books Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 I noticed that the Oting men, busily hurrying to and fro, bringing wood for t...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs pig killed in hunt, eaten over fire Joboka men mistake Haimendorf for a British official books Konyak Oting Joboka Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The next morning the gue...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs Haimendorf joined for night by two head-hunters; head-taker's tattoo books Konyak Oting Joboka Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Since I had neither any desire nor authority...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs beliefs concerning child birth books Konyak Oting Joboka Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 One of the Joboka men wore a neatly plaited gauntlet of red cane, instead of the u...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs difficulties with servants books Tsampio Nlamo Konyak Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Our start from Oting was beset with difficulties. Tsampio had been suffering fo...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs to Wangla via newly cleared jungle books Konyak Wangla Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The way to Wangla, the village on the opposite hill, passed through a broad valley, ...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs to Hungphoi village head-taking books Konyak Hungphoi Chen Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Wangla and Hungphoi both received us well, and I stayed in each of these village...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs description of tattooing at Hungphoi books Konyak Hungphoi Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 While I was eating my breakfast, on the morning after our arrival in Hungphoi, C...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs after-effects of tattooing; treating illnesses; malaria and other diseases books Konyak Hungphoi Oting Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It is proof of the enviable health o...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs besieged by inquisitive children books Konyak Hungphoi Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Hungphoi was the noisiest village I have ever been in. Large crowds of children surr...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs to Longkhai; description of Mauwang, Ang of Longkhai books Mauwang/ of Longkhai Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 After a few days I decided to leave Hungpho...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs Mauwang as blacksmith and wood-carver ; carving of wood books Mauwang/ of Longkhai Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The only things he was really serious ov...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs role and nature of wood carvings and carvers books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Most wood-carvings of the Konyaks serve to decorate their men's houses. ...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs house of the Ang of Longkhai and carvings - snake devouring a frog; sexual motifs books Mauwang/ of Longkhai Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Other posts of...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs Mauwang's life history books Mauwang/ of Longkhai Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Mauwang's life history is unusual and shows that even a "sacred" chief ma...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs wife of Ang of Longkhai books Mauwang/ of Longkhai Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It was growing chilly outside, and the Ang got up from the porch of the ...
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Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs presents and hospitality from wife of Ang of Longkhai books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 In no other Naga house was I welcomed with more obvious pleasur...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country letter inviting Haimendorf to accompany punitive expedition books Mills/ J.P. Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 (105) One evening while I was sitti...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country news of head-hunting raids in Patkoi hills at Pangsha books Kalyo Kengyu Pangsha Saochu Kejok Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It is not very far from Longkhai to...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country attitudes of British to head-hunting books Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 As long as the feuds in the tribal area were restricted to the usual head-hunting raid...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country head-hunting, human sacrifice and magical virtue of heads books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 It is difficult to distinguish clearly between head-huntin...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country Wakching villagers hope that Haimendorf will bring back head to inaugurate rebuilt Thepong morung books Thepong morung/ Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendor...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country memories of earlier head-hunting days books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The prospect of this adventure seemed to liven the minds of the old m...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country purchase and killing of slaves books Chinyang/ of Wakching Yongang/ of Wakching Konyak Phom Wakching Aopao (Chongwe) Mongnyu Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 "One...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country attitude of Wakching people to buying and selling of slaves books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Although this had not been an isolated case, th...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country Kalyo Kengyu people happy to kill slaves books Konyak Kalyo Kengyu Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 But the Kalyo Kengyus were apparently not bound by an...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country attack of malaria; setting off on 10th November on punitive expedition books Mills/ J.P. Konyak Wakching 10.11.1937 Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The 10th of N...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country over Dikhu to Mokokchung books Mokokchung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 As soon as I stood firmly on my legs, I started with Nlamo and a few porters; there was...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country one night in Tamlu and arrival at Mokokchung books Mokokchung Chantongia Tamlu Mongsenyimti Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 I spent only one night in Tamlu and i...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country Mokokchung busy, swarms of people books Smith/ G.W.J. Mokokchung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 I caught sight of G.W.J. Smith, a young police officer, in the m...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country motives of coolies and porters for joining a punitive expedition books Mokokchung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 The Naga porters were all volunteers, and only ...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country dining at Mills bungalow with Major Williams; dangers of trip books Smith Williams/ Major Mills Mokokchung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Mills was already in M...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country packing luggage; leaving for expedition books Mokokchung 13.11.1936 Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 We spent two more days in preparations before all the porters...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country description of punitive expeditionary column books Mokokchung Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Twelve men marched ahead forming a kind of advance guard. Mills, Wi...
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Chapter Twelve. Towards Unknown Country crossing the Dikhu river again books Konyak Dikhu R. Chare Furer-Haimendorf 6.1936-6.1937 Travelling first east and then south-east, the long column wound along...
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