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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dietary restrictions ; tiger, goat, bear

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books

ethnicgroup:

Wanchu

location:

Niaunyu (Niaunu)

production:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date:	1969
refnum:	with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 59:1

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There were certain restrictions of diet observed by the different classes. Commoners were allowed to eat all animals except tiger, but the higher classes abstained from the flesh of goat and bear.

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