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: Tanhai morungs
medium: notes
person: Akong morungAngpan morung
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Tanhai
production:
person: Archer/ W.G.
date: 1946-1948
refnum: 4:27
text: Konyak morung. Tanhai.
text: 1. Akong morung - crossboard - monkeys in a swinging line - porch - man - crossboard man & girl, tiger either side.
text: 2. Angpan morung -
text: 'Ang' post 'because it is the Ang's morung'. SKETCH
text: Model wooden aeroplanes fish and hornbills dangling from strings in the porch. Porch crossboard - 3 soldiers, hornbills and in the middle a woman with a baby - 2 tigers coming down a post to back - inside, an elephant.