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Chapter Four. Above the Clouds |
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autocratic position of Naga Angs |
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The appearance of the chief of Sheangha, and the deference with which his followers and even the Wakching men treated him, were quite different from anything I had hitherto experienced in the Naga Hills. The autocratic chiefs or Angs of the Konyaks (37) hold a unique position in these hills. They are the undisputed rulers in their own villages and all the villages under their overlordship. Their person is sacred, and no commoner ever approaches them upright. The servants of the Ang of Sheangha crouched every time they had to pass him and literally crept to their master when they offered him betel. |
