The Nagas

Oukheang morung Wakching Angban morung Wakching 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry dance poems in praise of founders of a morung books Oukheang morung Wakching Angban morung Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Dance poems in praise of the ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-two. Love and Poetry love songs and lyric poems and their context; romantic love books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The violence of emotions aroused by the unlawful appropriation of a dance song is proof of the enormous importance which the ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival personal decorations brought out before the dance books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 (197) The platform of the chief's house is filled with a merrily chattering crowd of women and girls, and in the ..
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Mauwang of Longkhai Wankau of Longkhai 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival Mauwang's wife dresses her light daughter, shaving head books Mauwang of Longkhai Wankau of Longkhai Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Mauwang's wife is already ..
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Mauwang of Longkhai 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival Mauwang's wife dresses Longkhai girls for dance books Mauwang of Longkhai Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Now the Ang's wife turns her attention to the toilette of the young girls. ..
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Ngapnun of Longkhai 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival the character of Ngapnun; dressing for dance books Ngapnun of Longkhai Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Among the girls is Ngapnun. I recognize her at once, for the last time I was in ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival further description of Ngapnun dressing for a dance books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 At last the long brown hair is ready, the parting made, and the hair plastered down with water, and now Ngapnun ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival dance by girls at Spring festival books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 No prima donna could take longer over her toilette than these girls, and it is already past midday when they begin to dance on the ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival men dressing for the dance books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 You might well imagine that the youths of the village would be here, forming an enthusiastic audience round the dance platform, but there ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival procession of men to the dance books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 At last comes the moment when the men, whirling their spears and dao as though setting out on the war-path, rush through the village ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival singing and dancing of men in procession in Spring Festival books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Singing and dancing, the crowd of men leave the morung at the farthest end of the village and pass along ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival rituals and sacrifice during the Spring festival; the god Gawang books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 (200) Suddenly all is quiet. The individual groups break up, the girls stop their dance, and the men..
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Mauwang of Longkhai 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival further rituals at the Spring festival books Mauwang of Longkhai Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 No sooner has the rain passed over than the old men press round a bamboo pole, which ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival secret of the rite at the Spring festival books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 It was months before I could induce a man to confide the secret of this rite. Its theme is also the fertility of the fields..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival feasting at the Spring festival books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The solemn ritual of the feast is now over, and the girls entertain the boys in the chief's house. For days they have pounded rice ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival the end of the Spring festival, retiring to bed books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 I go out into the night, glad of the cool air after the stuffiness of crowded chief's house. A full moon sails in the..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Longkhai Chapter Twenty-three. The Spring Festival girls undress after spring festival books Konyak Longkhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Piece by piece the girls divest themselves of their ornaments, and bid a reluctant farewell to the time of leisure and feasting. ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Wanching Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond on tour to Wanching; waiting for the rains in May; camping books Konyak Wakching Wanching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 (202) Rice is sprouting in the fields, and each day the Wakching people look anxiously at ..
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Wanching 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond storm in Wanching books Wanching Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Hardly have I gone to sleep when there is a terrible clap of thunder and I am awake again. The calm of the evening has given way to turmoil. Violent ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wanching Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond abstention from work, genna, to avoid misfortune books Konyak Wanching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 By morning the storm abates, and, to my surprise, we find my tent has resisted its force. But the village presents a ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond attitudes to supernatural books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 What is the Konyak's idea of the natural phenomena that sometimes threaten his life and his property? Is he the 'primitive man' who lives in constant and vague ..
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Yongang 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond attitudes to Gods and particularly Ghawang the sky god books Yongang Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Yet they all agree that he lives somewhere in the sky and that long ago he made the firmament. "Gawang made also the..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond absence of heaven and hell books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 It is in keeping with the Konyaks' realistic philosophy of life that Gawang does not wait to judge earthly offenders till after death, but his rewards and ..
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Dzeamang 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond ethical rules enforced by Gods books Dzeamang Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Gawang watches over the numerous taboos and sees that they are observed. When once I ask Dzeamang, a young man of Ang clan, whether during..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond prayers to gods books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 It is not only during feasts and ceremonies that the Konyak invokes Gawang. Often in the course of his daily life he will murmur a prayer to the sky god. When he begins to..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond other spirits and illness books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Compared to Gawang, the spirits of the earth, the wood, and the rivers are not very important. They may be malignant towards man, and they must therefore be ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond were-tigers books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Sometimes ordinary mortals see the spirits of the wood or the water as they slip by, but only men particularly endowed can see Gawang in their dreams. There are not many ..
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Lemang of Kongan Apong of Wanching 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Yungya Wanching Dikhu R. Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond Lemang the were-tiger books Lemang of Kongan Apong of Wanching Konyak Yungya Wanching Dikhu R. Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Among the Nagas this is a well-known ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond scepticism about were-tigers books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 When I asked whether the seers really wander about as tigers at night, he answered excitedly: "How can a man become a tiger? Man is of man's clan, tiger of ..
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Limnia of Wakching Shankok 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond employing a soothsayer books Limnia of Wakching Shankok Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 A few months before I am to leave Wakching, I decide to employ the services of the soothsayer Limnia to learn ..
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Limnia of Wakching 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond dream-life and trance of soothsayer books Limnia of Wakching Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 I ask her about her experiences in her dream-life, and she answers me with clear and short sentences; her manner ..
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Limnia of Wakching 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond visit by soothsayer to the Land of the Dead books Limnia of Wakching Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 visit by soothsayer to the land of the dead The following night Limnia goes to the Land of the Dead, to ..
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Chinyang 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond relaxed attitude to death, and the land of the dead books Chinyang Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Often I am surprised by the equanimity with which the Konyak views his own entrance into the Land of the Dead. As ..
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Limnia of Wakching 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond soothsayer promises to do dreaming seance books Limnia of Wakching Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Limnia promises to dream for me tonight, but now she says we should leave her alone. Tomorrow morning she ..
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Limnia of Wakching Shankok 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-four. The World Beyond soothsayers tale books Limnia of Wakching Shankok Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 In the shape of her tiger, she searched for the path to my land, and roamed about in the jungle for a long time ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-five. Farewell description of artefacts collected by Haimendorf books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 (210) The veranda of my bungalow is covered with the specimens of my collection: spears and dao from Wakching, Longkhai, Chingmei, and various ..
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Chinkak of Wakching Mauwang of Longkhai 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-five. Farewell favourite artefacts and dangerous artefacts books Chinkak of Wakching Mauwang of Longkhai Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 I cannot help my eyes falling also on those objects which I feel now I ..
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Chinkak of Wakching 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-five. Farewell further dangers of carving forbidden objects books Chinkak of Wakching Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 These two experiences should have put me wise, and warned me against persuading a man to carve objects linked ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-five. Farewell parting from the village and the Konyaks books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Men from three villages have gathered to carry my luggage and the objects of my collection down to Borjan, for it is only there that I shall be able to ..
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Shankok 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Twenty-five. Farewell parting from Shankok ; the happiest year of Haimendorf's life books Shankok Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Shankok goes with me through the high forest where so often we shot green pigeons. We both have only one thought: ..
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