The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook seven

caption: rituals of village and village origins
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 whole village makes the great gennas on the same day - the Moni (= Oulingbu) is held in the same month as the Oulingbu of Wakching, not as late as the Moni of Tamlu and Namsang. There is no first sowing and no building of the first field house.
text: (83) The two Konyak clans have also the tradition of coming from the stone at Lungterok.
text: There are Noklangs in all the Ao villages of the neighbourhood, as Merangkong, Chantongia.
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