The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

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book : 'Konyak Nagas' by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, (1969)

caption: Chapter Two. The Social Structure and its Units
caption: numbers of houses in each Wakching morung and clans
medium: books
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date: 1969
refnum: with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York45:6
text: The numbers of houses in the five wards of Wakching were as follows: Oukheang, 40; Thepong, 82; Balang, 41; Bala, 45; and Ang-ban, 42. The population of each of these wards was divided between several clans of varying status. The names and the distribution of these clans are listed in the following table:
text: _________________________TABLE_1

____________________________Clans

_Morung__________Chiefly__(Ang)__Intermediate_________Commoner
_(Ben)

_Oukheang_________-__________________-_________________Shayong-hu
__________________-__________________-_________________Khoknok-hu
__________________-__________________-_________________Yana-hu
_Thepong__________-__________________-_________________Shayong-hu
__________________-__________________-_________________Khoknok-hu
__________________-__________________-_________________Yana-hu
__________________-__________________-_________________Meta-hu
__________________-__________________-_________________Wemnok-hu

_Balang_____Angnok-pong______________-_________________Yinyong-hu
_______________________________________________________Meta-hu

_Bala_____________-_____________Shungta-hu_____________Leunok-hu
__________________-__________________-_________________Dzonok-hu
__________________-__________________-_________________Maibang-hu
_Ang-ban______Angnok-pong____________-_________________Yinyong-hu
______________Nokanok-pong___________-________________________-
______________Niamei-hu______________-________________________-
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