The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

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Chapter Two. The Social Structure and its Units

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collective celebration of marriage and initiation

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books

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Konyak

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date:	1969
refnum:	with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 49:4

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The members of a clan gathered also for the celebration of marriage and the initiation of a boy into the morung community. On that occasion the candidate's father gave a small feast and invited not only the clan members belonging to the same men's house but also clan members residing in other wards.

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