The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook five

caption: Kamahu morungs
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Kamahu
date: 30.10.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 25.8.1936-5.5.1937
refnum: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (43) Wakching 30/10/1936
text: Informant: Apong
text: Kamahu morungs
1. Pangshong
2. Pongto
3. Lamiu
4. Langdzong
text: The two groups dance together, ie. 1 & 2 with 3 & 4. People of clans with different origin can marry also within the morung for many people from other villages came to Kamahu. They intermarry also with those clans in whose morung they live. In Kamahu is a Wanching Ang who belongs to the Pangshong morung.