The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook six

caption: founding and history of Wakching clans
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 22.10.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 28.8.1936-26.10.1936
refnum: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (172) Wakching was founded by twelve men:
Dzimshei (Shayang-hu)
Khoknok (Khoknokhu)
Yinyong (Yongyong-hu)
Yana (Yanahu)
Kunba (Sha-yang-hu)
Meta (Metahu)
Shung-ta (Shungtahu)
Lim-ang (Limang-hu more often called Nokanokphong)
Yo-lo (Leu-nok-hu)
Tang-wem (Wem-nok-hu)
Ang-ba (Ang-nok-phong)
Lou-kem (Nia-mei-hu)
text: (173) Lim-ang-hu, Nokhanokpong and Phong-moi-hu are really only one clan, therefore they don't intermarry. Leu-nok and Mai-bang-hu are more or less one clan.
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