The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook eight

caption: dispute settlement
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wangla
date: 12.10.1936
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: Disputes are settled by a council assembling in the Wang-him morung and consisting of the Ang, the adult men of the Ang clan and the Wang-hu-him and the five Ngang-bas, two from the Nan-dzong-ban and three from the Dzing-shon-ban. They all eat (100) the fines imposed.