The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

typescript 'Village Organization Among the Central Nzemi Nagas', M.A. thesis by Ursula Betts

caption: chapter two - the village
caption: the kuloa
caption: measurements of morung rooms
medium: theses
ethnicgroup: Nzemi
production:
person: Betts/ U.V.
date: 1950
refnum: M.A. thesis, University College, London
note: footnotes indicated by boxes within square brackets
text: The following are the internal measurements of an average- sized hangseoki. It will be seen that the building narrows towards the back and that the roof slopes sharply down from front to rear.

_______Overall_length_________________________________75_feet
_______Length_of_hangseoki_hall_______________________55_feet
_______Length_of_kazeipeo's_house_____________________20_feet
_______Width_at_front_wall____________________________31_feet
_______Width_at_rear_wall_____________________________12_feet
_______Height_at_front_gable__________________________32_feet
_______Height_of_front_central_pillar_________________27_feet
_______Height_of_rear_central_pillar__________________10_feet
_______Height_of_side_walls____________________________5_feet
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