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:

paramount chiefs as judges

medium:

books

ethnicgroup:

Wanchu

location:

Niaunyu (Niaunu)

production:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date:	1969
refnum:	with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 61:1

text:

If a dispute occurring in a tributary village could not be resolved by the local chief and his council, the paramount chief of the domain was invited to give judgment and his verdict was final.

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