The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook on his return to Nagaland, 1970

caption: clans and marriage
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Zemi
location: Longkhai (Longkai)
date: 13.8.1970
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 8.8.1970-8.9.1970
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: Longkai 13/8/1970
text: Zemi clans:
Heneumi
Nkome
M-Pame
Hezalme ? (Hezan-me)
Sogame
text: Marriages are not exogamous.
text: ?Mpoa (Zemi) - land privately owned and inherited by a man's sons. The village council has no say about it. This is not found in every village. Some mpoa is land originally bought from the Kachari kings.