The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: Chapter Two. The Social Structure and its Units
caption: Thendu group - four classes
medium: books
ethnicgroup: Wanchu
location: Niaunyu (Niaunu)
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date: 1969
refnum: with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York57:4
text: The class composition of Niaunu was typical of many of the villages of the Thendu group. There were four classes known as Wangham ( great Ang), Wangsa ( small Ang), Wangsu ( intermediate), and Wangpeng ( commoner) .