The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook four

caption: founder's kin
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Tanhai
date: 1.9.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 14.8.1936-5.1937
refnum: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
note: [konyak] means text omitted
text: The office of Dunong-ba is hereditary and goes from the father to the son. The ancestor of MEKSHIN was the founder of Tanhai, the informant has forgotten his name.