The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

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size, morungs, customs

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	8.8.1970-8.9.1970

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Wanching 1/9/1970

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Number of houses 185
__morung_(with_drum)_Balang_(of_Ang)
__morung_with_tiger_Bala
__morung_Dzingshi
_________Panshang
_________Tantong
_________Wangwang

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_Ang_clans:_Angnokphong
____________Nokanokphong
____________Nokshadzinokpong
____________Nokkoknokpong

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The Ang's wife of Shanglenghu of Wanching, a Ben clan. Other Ben clans: Shongmoihu [].

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The Ang still receives tribute from other villages as before. There are no more old style yo (girls' dormitories) in Wanching, only in private houses. The boys' initiation (entry into morung) is still celebrated with puja. The non-Christians are in a majority. Pujas are still being performed. The dead are no longer exposed on platforms but buried in the earth. The population is about 1100.

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