The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

book : Return to the Naked Nagas (1939;1976)

caption: Chapter Eleven. Sacred Chiefs
caption: apparent equality of classes
medium: books
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Oting
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 6.1936-6.1937
text: (94) Watching the people of Oting at work in the village and on the fields, listening to their talks in the morung and on the verandas of the houses, you would scarcely think that there existed among them a difference of class. a difference between the high and the low, between aristocrats or Angs and commoners or Ben people.
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