The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

Furer-Haimendorf manuscript spiral bound notebook two

caption: morungs
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wanching Yungya Tamlu
date: 8.7.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 2.6.1936-12.1936
note: [konyak] means text omitted
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (12) 8th July
text: Wanching stones used for jumping (stone = yongkok "stone curved") moi wum bu = ceremony for rice
text: moi wum yong - the stone connected with it in front of the morung. One or two in front of every morung.
text: In Yungya are many stones.
text: Tangsa bang morung & Munglam bang morung - morungs of Tamlu follow Yungya customs, and speak Y. language and are Y. clans.
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