The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook seven

caption: origins of villagers
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: KonyakAo
location: Anaki
date: 18.3.1937
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 23.9.1936-21.3.1937
refnum: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: The Konyak clans came from Tamlu, the Aos from Boro Kanching. Anaki was founded by the fathers of the present generation. (82) In mixed marriages the children speak mainly the language of the father, but they speak and understand too their mother's language.