The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook eight

caption: ritual officials
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: The Ngang-bas of the Dzing-shon-ban are of:
Ghung-him
Go-him
Methong-him
text: The Ngangbas of the Nau-dzong-ban are of:
Khi-him
Dak-him
text: The office of Ngang-ba is hereditary, even a boy may take his father's place. cf. 35. There was a Ding-let family too - it died out and now the boys of the Wang-him announce the day when the people must go to the Ang's fields.
text: (101) cf. p. 59. There is no office of a Wang-shu-ba, but the Wang-hu-him clan pretends to be the clan of the Wang-shu-ba.
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