The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters

caption:

grave effigies

medium:

notes

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Chinglong (Chinlong) Chingtang (Chintang)

production:

person:	Archer/ W.G.
date:	1946-1948
refnum:	9:11

text:

Konyak. Chintong (Chinlong?). Grave effigies - only for unmarried boys or unmarried girls. If a boy, the boys of his group in the morung - the members of his working party put it up. If a girl, the boys of the morung entitled to go with girls of her morung. Married men and women do not get effigies.

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