The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary one

caption: origins of Angs, Angs dying out in controlled area
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 24.8.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 2.6.1936-11.7.1936
note: translated from german by Dr Ruth Barnes
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: The Angs of Longkhai come from Mon as the original Ang family died out (219) but as neither Mauwang nor any of his brothers have any sons alive now it is likely that this line will die out too. Then another Ang will come from Mon. It is curious that the Ang families of all the villages in the controlled area have died out sooner or later, many of them long before the region came under Government control, while Mon and Chi on the other side seem to have an endless supply of blue-blooded Angs which they pass on to other villages.