The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption:

Chapter Three. Phases of Life

caption:

beliefs concerning duration of pregnancy

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books

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Wakching

production:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date:	1969
refnum:	with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 65:3

text:

The duration of a pregnancy was fairly accurately predicted, though some Konyaks thought that women impregnated by men of chiefly class carried a child for ten months, while the pregnancies of the wives of commoners lasted only nine months. The natal class of the woman was considered irrelevant for the duration of a pregnancy.

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