The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

published - extracts from 'Account of the valley of Munnipore and of the Hill Tribes' by Major W. McCulloch

caption:

sickness; payments for the dead

medium:

articles

person:

Stewart/ Lt.

ethnicgroup:

Kookie Khongjai

production:

person:	McCulloch/ Major W.
date:	1858
refnum:	from: Selections from the Records of the Government of India, No. 27 (Calcutta) 1859

text:

Sickness is treated in the Koupooee fashion, and as amongst them, results sometimes in the slavery of the patient, the "Mundoo" is found under the denomination of "Longmul " and this payment for the dead is rigorously exacted.

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