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 Three. Phases of Life

caption:

entry into a morung an initiation rite

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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 68:3

text:

Entry into the morung community bore all the signs of an initiation rite which marked the passage from childhood to adolescence, and established a boy in the rights and duties of a morung member.

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