The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook ten

caption: history of Angs ; the sun and moon
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Tanhai Punkhung
date: 8.3.1937
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 24.2.1937-11.4.1937
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: In the Tanhai language morung is "heang". The Punkhung Ang comes from Tanhai. The Punkhung men once killed their own Ang and asked for an Ang from Tanhai. When his family died out they again got an Ang from Tanhai. The Long-dza morung consists mainly of Tanhai people. (78) Shopong says that a tiger, not a frog, devours the sun and the moon.
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