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the Angs and other officials of Oting |
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Wakching 30/7/1936. As Mr Blah arrives today I spent part of the morning clearing out of one room and putting my things in order. Then I worked briefly with Chingai from Oting. Each of the two morungs has an Ang, a position which is hereditary. These morung Angs do not receive tribute however. At gennas which concern the entire village a man called the 'wang-shu-ba' goes to the house of the village Ang and performs the appropriate ceremony there. (149) The 'wang-shu-ba' is always from the Wang-shu clan. Another dignitary, the 'ben-ba', functions at individual gennas such as at funerals and at sickness gennas. |
