The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook fourteen

caption: relations with Chintang
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 3.6.1937
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 1.5.1937-3.6.1937
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (183) Wakching 3/6/1937
text: Inf. Yongang
text: The Chingtang people give shares of animals killed at various gennas (but not at Oulingbu) to the great houses of the Thepong clans. The people of Ang clan give their shares to the Thepong morung, others to the respective "Great Houses" of Yanahu, Khoknok, Wemnok and Shayonghu and Metahu, under the protection of which they stand. Tanhai and Shiong don't give similar shares to the Great Houses of Aukheang, but only the shares to the morung at Oulingbu. (184) Thepong men don't take wives from Chingtang, but Thepong girls marry Chingtang men.