The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

Furer-Haimendorf manuscript spiral bound notebook three

caption:

ceremony for the boys entering the morung

medium:

notes

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Tamlu

date:

7.1936

production:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	7.1936-12.1936
note:	[konyak] means text omitted

acquirer:

person:

School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

text:

(58) There is a ceremony for the boys entering the morung. The father of the boy makes a sacrifice of a mithan, or a buffalo, or a cow, or a pig. The oldest man of his clan does the killing. [konyak] "Ghagang, boys well make, men well make". Then a man calls together the morung members: [konyak] "Together come to eat". Then all the men assemble in the morung and eat and drink.

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