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

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Konyak morungs

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notes

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Wangla Hungphoi Oting Totok

production:

person:	Archer/ W.G.
date:	1946-1948
refnum:	4:30

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Konyak.

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Ang - Ang morung - other morungs.

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Re heads, an Ang's house, or a morung with Ang clan members (and sometimes the house of any rich man) is the proper place for depositing skulls.

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Wangla and Hungphoi - even if other morungs take heads, they hand them over to the Ang morung (the two other morungs in Wangla have no Ang clan members).

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Oting - the 2 morungs have both got Ang clan members therefore both kept skulls.

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Totok - all heads go to the houses of the richest men.

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