The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook fourteen

caption: founding a village
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 30.5.1937
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 1.5.1937-3.6.1937
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (167) Wakching 30/5/1937
text: Inf. Chinyang
text: When a village is founded the men of the mother village first help the colonists to cut down the jungle, then the sites are chosen for the morung and the houses. The morung is first built, then the individual houses. If possible, the Ang's house is built on the same house as the morung (sic). When the Ang house is built a stone is erected in front of it and a chicken is killed: [konyak] (168) This is done by the founder "the owner of the village".
text: The new village needs:
an Ang
a Thepwangba
an Ouwokba
one Niengba
a Benba for the Ang
text: All these officials will be found at Wakching, except the Ouwokba.
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