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Chapter Two. The Social Structure and its Units |
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chiefly houses of the Thendu, the Ang of Mon |
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There were many famous chiefly houses among the Konyaks of the Thendu group, and the spheres of influence of the paramount chiefs of Mon and Chi overlapped to some extent with the sphere of the basically democratic Thenkoh village of Wakching. Several of the chiefs I came to know best in 1936 were vassals of the Ang of Mon, a proud and dignified figure, who at that time never moved without a large retinue of retainers and henchmen. |
