The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook eight

caption: inhabitants of the Ang's house
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Oting
date: 7.10.1937
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 4.10.1936-23.2.1937
note: [konyak] means text omitted
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (47) In the Ang's house:
text: Informants: Ang and Chingai
text: Inhabitants of the Ang's house:
The Ang: DZAKWANG of Wang-hem-yen clan.
His 1st wife: She-niam, the daughter of the Ang of Pungkhung.
His 2nd wife: Maniou of Wang-nan clan and Longshai-ba morung.
His 3rd wife: Ano of Lukyem clan and Ding-don morung.
His children by She-niam:
1. TOWANG
2. Ngepli
3. Pe-am
4. DONWANG
5. Nan-phe
6. To-no
7. Yin-lem
text: (48) The Ang's children by Maniou:
1. MAN-PAM
2. Ngep-tai
text: The Ang's daughter by Ano:
Nep-cha
text: The Ang's half-brother
ATO whose mother was of Ben clan.
ATO's wife: Pha-sha of Wang-nan and Ding-don-ba.
text: PHO-TUN a boy of Wang-hem-yen clan, whose parents dies. He is engaged to a girl and sleeps with her in her parents' house.
text: (49) Ngep-am, an old woman of Ang clan who was married to Punkhung and came back when her husband died.