The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook twelve

caption: family history of Ang of Wakching
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 25.3.1937
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 24.3.1937-27.4.1937
note: [konyak] means text omitted
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (23) Chinkak, the Ang of Wakching, had three wives:
text: 1. Wangzong of Shiong, Wangnaulim, went back to Shiong and married a Ben man of Shiong. She had no children.
text: 2. Agoi of Shiong, Wangnaulim. She had one daughter, Ngepli, who stays with Chinkak. She left Chinkak and lives now in the house of Wangpha, an Angban man and goes to the market at Santok.
text: 3. Nanglung, the daughter of the late Ang of Tanhai. She stays with Chinkak and has six living children, one died.
text: (24) Chinkak has sold all his fields except eight, which the villagers said he must keep.