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: refusal of girls to marry far away
medium: books
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Oting
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 6.1936-6.1937
text: The situation was further complicated by the refusal of the girls to marry into villages more than one day's journey from Oting. How could they visit their parents and their old friends at the annual feasts? "We would never hear in time of the illness or the death of our parents," the girls complained. No, all by themselves into a far-off village they would not go.
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