The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook three

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house list and family histories

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	8.1936-6.1937

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School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

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(83)_1._SHANKOK
_______=_Chongna
_1st_daughter:_Mendzei
_his_mother:_Chongna
_his_brothers:_CHINYANG_(1)
_____________:_DANGBA_(4)
_____________:_PUNEI_(5)
_____________:_WEICHING_(6)
_[sisters:]__Menyu_(3)
_____________Liphung_(2)
__________=her husband WANPHONG (Dzo-nok, Bala) she does not stay with her husband, only supplies him with fuel. She delivers her first child in her parents' house, then goes to her husband's house.

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(84) 2. CHINANG (Yanahu, Thephong)
_________= Ta-man (Nokanokphong, Angban)
1st son: PONGDE (adult)
1st daughter: Mindzing
2nd daughter: Liang
3rd daughter: Chui-ang
2nd son: YONG-WE
his mother: Chongma (Yinyonghu, Balang)

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(85) 3. YONG-LONG (Sha-yong-hu-noh, Thephong)
_________= Wan-dzum (Dzo-nok, Bala)
1st son: MENG-LING (adult)
2nd son: KUN-PHA
3rd son: YONG-LANG
1st daughter: Chui-tang

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(86) Shou-dzang (Yin-yong-hu)
_________= CHINYANG (dead) (Koknok-hu, Thephong)
________(younger brother)
1st son: WEIDZING (12)
2nd son: PHU-NEI
1st daughter: Liphung
2nd daughter: Shui-dzing
Meniu, her father was brother of CHINYANG'S father. She is adult, but not yet married. Her parents died and she has neither elder nor younger brothers.

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(87) 5. DANG-BA (Kok-nok-hu, Thephong)
________= Mongnio (Deo-nok, Bala)
1st son: WEIDZING
1st daughter: Shui-dzing

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6. SHOUBA (dead) (Koknok, Thephong)
died on 6th August 1936.

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He had only one daughter, Meniu, she married DUKDAU (Nokanok-phong, Ang-ban), and went to stay with her husband. When her father became ill she spent part of her time in his house to help him. After her father's death she and her husband and her two children, KUN-ANG and Ngen-li, came to live in her father's house until the skull is disposed in the stone cist. Nobody lives no in DUKDAU'S own house. When the gennas with the skull are done they return to their house in Ang-ban.

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(88) 7. CHINYANG (Koknok-hu, Thephong)
________= Shik-na (Dzo-nok, Bala)
1st son: SHOUBA
1st daughter: Li-phung
2nd daughter: Shui-dzing

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