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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Khonoma Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit description of Khonoma fortress books Angami Khonoma Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Khonoma stands on the crest of a ridge, a natural fortress; on all sides the slopes fall away steeply. Stone steps lead up the hill to the gateway ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Khonoma Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit the Khonoma Feasts of Merit books Angami Khonoma Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The headmen of Khonoma gave me the most friendly reception and I spent hours photographing stone circles, discussing the complicated series of Feasts of..
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Johnstone Col. 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Khonoma Kohima Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit a rebellion in Khonoma in 1879 books Johnstone Col. Angami Khonoma Kohima Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 In 1879 a rebellion started by Khonoma swept over the whole Angami country and the Europeans in Kohima ..
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Pawsey C.R. 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Two. Feasts Of Merit the siege of Kohima in 1944 books Pawsey C.R. Angami 1944-01-01:1944-12-31 Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 How different was the siege of 1944. Both sides were then armed with modern weapons. Once again the defenders of Kohima ..
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Mills J.P. 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Dimapur Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone description of ruined gate at Dimapur books Mills J.P. Dimapur Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 (25) Swarms of shrieking parrots flew off low boughs as Mills and I approached the clearing. Their jerking flight aimed at ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Dimapur Dhansiri R. Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone ruined city of Dimapur books Dimapur Dhansiri R. Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 A little way off rose the red brick ruins of a powerful gateway. The reliefs on the withered facades still spared by time showed the ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Dimapur Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone ruins of Dimapur books Dimapur Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 We passed through the arch of the gateway and found ourselves once more under high trees. No ruined wall bears testimony to the palace of the King who once received ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Dimapur Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone fertility feasts and memorials at Dimapur books Dimapur Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 As the jungle thinned, the path opened out on to a large space, where well over fifty gigantic stone monuments stood against an orange evening..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Tanhai Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone bloodthirsty relations between Nagas and plainsmen; Kacharis and Ahoms books Konyak Ahom Kachari Tanhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 During the sixteenth century the power of the Kachari kings was shattered by the attacks of the..
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Mills J.P. 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Simaluguri Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone journey from Manipur Road to Simaluguri by train books Mills J.P. Simaluguri Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The ruins of Dimapur lie quite near the railway station of Manipur Road, and from there Mills and I took a ..
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Castles G. 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Borjan Colliery Chapter Three. An Orgy in Stone by narrow gauge railway to edge of Konyak country books Castles G. Borjan Colliery Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 A narrow-gauge railway connected Simaluguri with Naginimara, and from there it was only four ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Four. Above the Clouds description of thick mountain forest slopes books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 (30) Thin mist filled the forest, and the trunks of huge creeper-clad trees rose steep and straight to their first spreading branches, and heavy drops..
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Shankok 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds first encounter with Konyaks from Wakching, including Shankok books Shankok Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 We were already high up -- certainly well over 4,000 feet -- and there was still no trace of the ..
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Mills J.P. 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Four. Above the Clouds offer of bitter tea books Mills J.P. Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The men from Wakching offered us tea; it tasted dreadfully bitter. But this was not really surprising, for the leaves had been boiling in water for a ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Four. Above the Clouds description of ordinary clothing of Konyaks, nakedness books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The Konyaks reached up to somewhere near Mills' shoulder, but their slim bodies were so beautifully proportioned that, living alone among ..
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Mills J.P. 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds arrival at Wakching in thick fog; warned not to enter unadministered territory books Mills J.P. Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 When we arrived at Wakching a teasing fog blotted out all vision. We were ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds magnificent views from inspection bungalow books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 From the other side of the bungalow I looked over the broad valley of the Brahmaputra to the foothills of the Himalayas. On clear ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds mist books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 When I woke up on the morning after our arrival, it seemed as though we were on an island, or rather on one of the many islands of an archipelago; for a white sea of fog ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds walking up through corpse platforms, effigies, skulls and coffins books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The gaonbura came to the bungalow after breakfast, and went with us up to the village. A steep path led ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds village granaries; lovers' sleeping places; beliefs concerning magic of fertility books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Leaving the corpse-platforms, we passed through the narrow street of the village granaries, ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds gangway and lookout-tree books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 At the entrance of the village proper a mighty banyan tree stretched in a wide bow over the path, its aerial roots grown anew into the ground, forming ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds front of morung and description of morung carvings books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The men's house or morung appeared, with its open front, like the wide-open mouth of some gigantic whale; numerous carved ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds further description of morung carvings books Fantastic carvings adorned the open porch of the morung the head and tusks of an elephant, a life-sized leopard running head downwards, and two warriors, holding captured heads in their hands,..
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Mills 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds people working on porch of morung books Mills Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 A few men sat about on the open porch, plaiting baskets and mending their fishing-nets. I suppose you would get used to rubbing ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds money replacing barter; matches and umbrellas; the collection of artefacts books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 One of the men had a pretty box, carved in the shape of a human head, and Mills bought it for one ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds the Konyak houses, a comfortable feeling books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The Konyaks, however, are not so particular. They do not in the least mind getting wet, for unlike the Angami, they seldom wear clothes..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds gardens, pigs as garbage collectors books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 These carefully fenced in little gardens are almost the only places where one is quite safe from the innumerable black pigs. With their ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds two hundred and fifty houses in Wakching, winding paths; payment of tribute books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Narrow paths thread the thicket growing rank on all ground not cleared for building; an abandoned ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds strangers with fantastic head-dresses and tattoos books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 When we returned to the bungalow after a whole morning's visiting the village, we found it surrounded by a strange crowd, ..
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Mills J.P. 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds description of the chief of Sheangha; monkey skull head-dress chiefs from unadministered territory bring cases to Mills books Mills J.P. Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 One man, with a head-dress of a ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds autocratic position of Naga Angs books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The appearance of the chief of Sheangha, and the deference with which his followers and even the Wakching men treated him, were quite different..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds gift of goat and appreciation of cigarettes books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The Ang of Sheangha brought Mills a goat as a gift of welcome, and Mills entertained him and his suite with a few cups of rum. I ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Totok Chi (Chui) Chapter Four. Above the Clouds feuds between Totok and Chui and recent head-taking books Konyak Wakching Totok Chi (Chui) Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Many other people from across the frontier had come to welcome Mills, but the powerful Ang..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Shiong Chapter Four. Above the Clouds visit to Shiong; linguistic differences books Konyak Wakching Shiong Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The next day we visited the small village of Shiong. Though lying with its fifty houses hardly one hour's march away, it ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Shiong Chapter Four. Above the Clouds variations in hair-style from village to village; short skirts books Konyak Wakching Shiong Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Yes, Shiong is very different from Wakching. The men tattoo their faces and wear the same coiffure ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds all Konyak women slim and mostly attractive books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 I must admit that I could never share the opinion of my Wakching friends. For me the missing width of skirt did not lessen the charm..
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Ahon 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Shiong Chapter Four. Above the Clouds entertained at Shiong, hostess a leper; leprosy books Ahon Konyak Wakching Shiong Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 In Shiong we were first entertained in the house of Ahon. He was an old friend of Mills and only too ..
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Ahon of Shiong 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Shiong Chapter Four. Above the Clouds Ahon a very good informant in Shiong books Ahon of Shiong Konyak Shiong Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 But leper-wife or no leper-wife, I had to make friends with Ahon. He had once served the Government as a dobashi,..
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Ahon of Shiong 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Sangnyu (Hangnyu) Chapter Four. Above the Clouds Ahon as story-teller, tales of the great Angs books Ahon of Shiong Konyak Sangnyu (Hangnyu) Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Ahon loved to tell stories of the less glorious deeds and fates of the Great Angs...
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Pomau Sangnyu (Hangnyu) Chapter Four. Above the Clouds story of an Ang of Hangnyu books Konyak Pomau Sangnyu (Hangnyu) Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 It appears that twenty years ago the old Ang of Hangnyu died, and his two sons and his brother quarrelled over the ..
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Mills J.P. 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Tanhai Chapter Four. Above the Clouds set off to Tanhai for Mills to try a case; crossed reeds to deter illness books Mills J.P. Konyak Tanhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Mills was to try a case while he was in the Konyak country. It concerned the taking ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Tanhai Chapter Four. Above the Clouds the village of Tanhai books Konyak Tanhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The house of the Ang stood in the centre of the village of Tanhai. It was a long, low building, divided into numerous small rooms. At the back, and partly ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Tanhai Chen Sheangha Chapter Four. Above the Clouds a difficult legal case concerning head hunting books Konyak Tanhai Chen Sheangha Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The case Mills had to try was a difficult one. A woman of Chen, a village lying in unadministered country..
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Mills J.P. 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Tanhai Chapter Four. Above the Clouds description of court scene with Mills books Mills J.P. Konyak Tanhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The trial proceeded in the most friendly fashion. It was rather like an informal gathering on the side of the fields, ..
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Ahon of Shiong Chingai of Oting Mills J.P. 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Tanhai Hungphoi Sheangha Chapter Four. Above the Clouds description of trial at Tanhai; fresh tattoo of head hunter books Ahon of Shiong Chingai of Oting Mills J.P. Konyak Tanhai Hungphoi Sheangha Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Tanhai Chapter Four. Above the Clouds fine of a mithan; role of mithan in Naga culture books Konyak Tanhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The mithan or gayal which plays so important a role among the Nagas is a species of cattle, black-brown in colour with white ..
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Mills J.P. 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Tanhai Chapter Four. Above the Clouds end of trial; Mills returns to Mokokchung books Mills J.P. Konyak Tanhai Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 The trial ended with Hungphoi and Sheangha both promising to pay the imposed fine of mithan, and the youthful ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wanching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds set off via Wanching; claws of pangolin used to cure centipede inflamation books Konyak Wanching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 It was drizzling with rain when, early next morning, we walked over the ridge to the neighbouring ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Four. Above the Clouds elephant droppings below Wanching books Konyak Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 In the forest, only a little below the fields of Wanching, we came upon mounds of giant droppings sprawling over the path. Wild elephants! The Konyaks do not ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Dikhu R. Chapter Four. Above the Clouds cane bridge over the Dikhu river books Konyak Dikhu R. Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Deep down in the stuffy, jungle-filled valley we crossed the Dikhu River. Its flooded, coffee-brown waters, carrying broken branches and whole ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Tamlu Kanching Chapter Four. Above the Clouds arrival in Tamlu, village with American Baptist mission books Konyak Tamlu Kanching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 That evening we reached Tamlu, a Konyak village lying about 3,000 feet above sea level on a ridge that rises..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chantongia Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists ruined bachelor's hall in Ao village of Chantongia books Ao Chantongia Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 (46) The bachelors' hall overlooking the Ao village of Chantongia was a depressing sight. Rain dripped through holes in ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chantongia Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists tin roofed chapel and missionary singing in Chantongia books Ao Chantongia Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 A bell rang, feebly and tinnily, and the sound of singing rose in our ears. Were these Naga voices? It sounded like ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chantongia Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists harmful effects of missionaries, subverting Naga culture books Ao Chantongia Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 People with serious faces came out of the chapel. There was the "pastor", a skinny young man in khaki shorts, and ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chantongia Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists why bachelors' halls are no longer used books Ao Chantongia Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 I asked the "pastor" why the bachelors' halls were no longer used. "How could a Christian boy sleep in these houses of the heathen..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chantongia Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists curious attack by missions on Feasts of Merit books Ao Chantongia Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Similarly, the Feasts of Merit, forbidden by the missionaries, fulfilled an extremely important social and economic function...
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chantongia Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists disturbance to economic and ritual system by missions books Ao Chantongia Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Social prestige was not their only reward. With every feast they acquired the right to increased shares of meat ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chantongia Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists attack on community spirit by individualistic Christians books Ao Chantongia Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 ln Christian villages the rich, free of traditional obligations towards their neighbours and forbidden to perform ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chantongia Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists importance of rice-beer in Naga culture; missions attempt to prevent the use of alcohol books Ao Chantongia Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 One of the main obstacles to any participation of Christians in village feasts is ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chantongia Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists effect of tea drinking as a substitute for rice-beer books Ao Chantongia Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 As a substitute for rice-beer the Mission has introduced tea, which drunk without milk is greatly inferior in ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chantongia Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists ugly missionary churches books Ao Chantongia Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Nothing shows this disparity more clearly than the churches you find in Ao villages. Most of them are low, square, tinroofed buildings, the ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists Naga wood carving threatened by missions books Ao Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 As it is, the Aos' highly developed art of wood carving is in danger of extinction. The high reliefs and carved figures in the bachelors' halls and on ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists some Nagas refuse to convert to Christianity books Ao Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 In the villages I visited with Mills, the mission had then not won a complete victory, and many Aos persevered in their traditional faith. Curiously..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists reasons for conversion books Ao Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Undoubtedly there must have been Nagas who embraced the Christian faith because they were impressed by its lofty ideals and seriously convinced of its truth. But for many..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists opposing views of Government officials and missionaries to the welfare of Nagas books Ao Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Government officials and missionaries took unfortunately exactly opposite views on what was good for the Nagas, ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists clash between Naga culture and the American Baptist missions books Ao Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 It is a pity that the American Baptist Mission had little sympathy with the aims of the Government and even less appreciation for ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists travel through the Naga countryside books Ao Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Several days later we made our way from Chantongia to Merangkong. The sun blazed down from a deep blue sky and the air was filled with the shrill buzzing of ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Merangkong Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists tiger hunt at Merangkong books Ao Merangkong Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 (52) The village of Merangkong, with its three rows of houses, one on top of the other, presented on entirely regular front; seen at a distance it..
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Sakchimtuba 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Merangkong Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists visit to house of man in Merangkong books Sakchimtuba Ao Merangkong Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Eventually I visited the house of a famous old man called (54) Sakchimtuba. In his youth he had taken part in ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists beautiful young Ao girls return to house books Ao Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Dusk had come, and the women of the house returned from the fields. They sat down among the men without the slightest shyness. Young Ao girls are pretty..
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Sakchimtuba 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Merangkong Chantongia Chapter Five. Heathens and Baptists discussion of supernatural events, gods and spirits books Sakchimtuba Ao Merangkong Chantongia Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 I thanked my hosts for the delicious rice-beer by offering them ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain persistent rain and wind books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 (56) I returned to Wakching and settled down to my work among the Konyaks and to the incessant boredom of rain, rain, rain. For days and days it would ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain depression and difficulties of fieldwork books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 There I sat in the rain, not making nearly as much progress with my work as I had hoped. At the beginning everything had been promising..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain growing understanding books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Yet in those first weeks I was able to learn quite a lot about the people of Wakching, and though much of what I wrote down was incorrect or incomplete, ..
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Chinyang of Wakching 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain description of informant Chinyang; description of his tattoo books Chinyang of Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 There were two men who, more than any others, helped me in my work -- the..
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Chinyang 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain the morungs of Wakching books Chinyang Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chingyang was proud to belong to the Oukheang morung, the oldest men's house of Wakching, built in the old times by the founder of the..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain rivalries between morungs books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Nevertheless, there exists between the morung, in spite of the many kinship ties, a certain rivalry. Some forty years ago such a rivalry led to the ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain declining birth-rate of morung blamed on end of head hunting books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 It was this strong morung-feeling which led Chinyang to (58) complain to me one morning about the declining ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain head hunting causes fertility of women and crops books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 "In the old times we were men, now we are only a crowd of women," I often heard him say. "When we captured heads, then we had ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain disease increased by contact between villages books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 This view contained no doubt an element of truth. Since head-hunting has been forbidden, the intercourse between villages has ..
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Chinyang of Wakching 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain high mortality in Chinyang's family books Chinyang of Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chinyang himself had had much misfortune. Three wives had died one after the other, and three of ..
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Chinyang Yongang Of Wakching 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain opium smoking not harmful to Chinyang books Chinyang Yongang Of Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Chinyang, though an opium-smoker, was the soul of honesty, and I would not have ..
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Yongang 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain Yongang and his three divorces books Yongang Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Yongang was slightly younger than Chinyang. He had a great (59) sense of humour, and his peculiarly high laugh would often ring ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain explanation by informants of Wakching social structure books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 These two gaonbura explained to me how Wakching was divided into clans and morung-groups, how the marriage customs and ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain violent epidemic of dysentery and deaths in village books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 In these first weeks, when it poured with rain, there was little-going on in Wakching besides the weeding of the rice-fields..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain death-rhythm of the drums at frequent deaths books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 I was often wakened during the night by the sinister sound of the great log-drums, as the young men announced each death to the ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Wanching Chingtang Chapter Six. Death in the Rain epidemic of dysentery spreads to other villages books Konyak Wakching Wanching Chingtang Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 It was not only the drums of Wakching which boomed through these August nights, but the ..
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Chinyak of Wakching 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain youths and girls setting up bamboo scaffold in burial ritual books Chinyak of Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 On my way to the village one morning, I found a group of boys and girls by ..
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Balang morung Wakching Chinyak of Wakching 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain girls strew leaves on path at death books Balang morung Wakching Chinyak of Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 These were the morung friends of Chinyak and young ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain gifts offered after death books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 There was much movement in the village as gifts of betel, rice, and vegetables were being carried to the dead body by clansmen and friends. They came ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain ritual wailing and taboos after death books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 It was ten o'clock then, and the wailing continued the whole morning. So we sat about and waited for the funeral to begin. Owing to the ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain a long bier carried into the house books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Early in the afternoon some old men carried an open bamboo bier into the house, and it was not long before I heard a solemn and curiously ..
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Chinyak of Wakching 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain exhorting the dead & carrying the corpse books Chinyak of Wakching Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Time after time these same words were repeated; time after time the dead was enjoined to be..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain family to feed corpse while head remains on body books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 After several minutes of lingering round the platform, during which they did little more than look at the corpse, the mourners ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain decomposing corpses books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 In the heat of the summer a corpse decomposes very quickly, and already on the day after the funeral swarms of buzzing flies surrounded the platform. The ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain wrenching head from body of corpse and cleaning of skull books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 When I went to the village on the sixth day after the funeral, I was told that the head was to be wrenched from the ..
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Nlamo Tsampio 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain pigs gnaw the human bones books Nlamo Tsampio Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 My two Lhota companions, Nlamo and Tsampio, were horrified that the pigs should be allowed to gnaw the human bones, and ..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain part of soul in skull, other part to land of dead books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 I must admit that I was rather surprised that, after the care with which the skull had been treated, the body should be liable..
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1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Wakching Chapter Six. Death in the Rain discussion about land of the dead books Konyak Wakching Furer-Haimendorf 1936-06-01:1937-06-31 Late that evening we sat on the veranda of my bungalow and looked over where the valley should have been. It was still raining! Would it ever ..
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