The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook six

caption: sexual rights of Angs
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
date: 18.9.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 28.8.1936-26.10.1936
refnum: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: The Great Angs take any girls they like to their houses by force. They send men at night to take her to the Ang's house and they don't give a marriage price.
text: The Mon Angs took Ben girls from Longkhai and Hungphoi.
text: The Chui Angs take Ben girls from Leangha and Shiong.
text: When a Wakching or Wanching Ang marries a Ben girl, she goes at once to his house.
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