The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook fourteen

caption: shares of food given to relatives at Oulingbu ritual
medium: notes
person: Dzingben
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 26.5.1937
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 1.5.1937-3.6.1937
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (150) Wakching 26/5/1937
text: Dzingben gives at Oulingbu shares of pork and rice:
text: to his sister Mendzing (two parcels of white rice and two long pieces of pork)
text: to his daughter Mendzing who is married to Tanhai (two parcels of white rice and two pieces of pork).
text: He receives from other people:
text: from Nie-ang (Angban 2), the brother's son of his wife Belong, two parcels of white rice and two pieces of pork.
text: from Yongyo (Bala 44) the father of his son's wife, two parcels of (151) white rice and two pieces of pork.
text: Dzingben returns to Nieang and Yongyo about half the value of the gifts they gave him. The giving of gifts in return is called "tanyong hei ye bu". He receives in return gifts from his sister's household and the household of his daughter, who is at Tanhai. His daughter comes for the Oulingbu to Wakching.