The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook eight

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morungs and clans

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	4.10.1936-23.2.1937
note:	[konyak] means text omitted

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School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

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(106) Hungphoi 13/10/1936

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Morungs:
1. Mo-ha-bang
2. Moi-long-bang (the Ang's)
(3. Wa-him-bang)

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Wa-him-ban is the real Ang morung, but it is generally not used, only at ceremonial occasions the men assemble there, but the boys of the Ang clan sleep there.
Mo-ha-bang
Wang-hu-him
Gim-hong-wang-hu-him
Wang-ha-him (Ang clan)
Nahim (Ben)
(107) Moi-long-bang
Wang-nan-him (Ben)
Li-gang-him (Ben)
Wang-ha-him (Ang clan)
Luk-him (only one house - Ben)

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The site of the Ang (his house) is called Wang-him-yen.

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Wang-hu-him and Gim-hong-wang-hu-him eat together and don't intermarry.

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Wang-ha-him intermarries with Wang-hu-him and Gim-hong-wang-hu-him, even if they belong to the same morung.

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Wang-hu-him and Nahim don't intermarry, neither does Gim-hong-wang-hu-him.

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(108) Wang-nan-him and Li-gang-him don't intermarry.

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Nahim does not intermarry with Ligang-him and Wang-nan-him.

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Nahim men marry only Ang girls.

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Wang-ha-him intermarries with all three Ben clans.

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