The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook four

caption:

genealogies of the Angs of Longkhai

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notes

person:

Mauwang/ of Longkhai

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Shiong

date:

8.1936

production:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	14.8.1936-5.1937
refnum:	School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
note:	[konyak] means text omitted

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(55) Longkhai

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Informant: Ang of Longkhai, MAUWANG from Mon, his clan Wang-no.

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3 morungs:
1. Wang-ba (the Ang's morung)
2. Lamun
3. Dzing-wun (an offshoot of Wang-ba)

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The Longkhai people came originally from Joboka (or this direction), but their Ang's died out so they got an Ang from Mon.

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(56)
___________________________ALO
_________________________=_Ali_of_Lengha
____________________________|
_______-----------------------------------------------
_______|_______________|______________|______________|
______ATOU_(dead)___MAUWANG________WANKU__________AM-MEI
____no_children____=_Ali_of_Chui__was_married____not_married
___________________1._ALO_(dead)__to_a_Ben_wife
___________________2._ATO_(dead)__no_children
___________________3._Ashen

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MAUWANG'S sister, Ashin married the small Ang of Lengha. When MAUWANG dies his brother WANKU becomes Ang, after WANKU an Ang from Mon will come.

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(57) In Longkhai the Ou-nie-bu is called Cha-wem-bu. (Cha = rice (dhan)).

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Old story about Longkhai Angs:

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The Ang gets the head of every game killed. Once the Ben people killed a stag. The small Ang said: "The head belongs to me", took it and eat it. Then the Great Ang drove him away.

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During Mai-bong-bu the women of other villages (Tanhai for example) come to Longkhai and dance, then the Longkhai men visit these villages.

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