Ao Nagas

By:

Mills, J. P

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bombay; Oxford University Press; 1973Description: 510 pSubject(s):

Tribes

DDC classification:

307.7095417 MIL

Summary: In this volume an attempt is made to describe a people which presents several characteristics not found in any of the Naga tribes dealt with in the monographs hitherto pub lished by the Government of Assam. The Ao custom of disposing of their dead by laying them out on platforms; their elaborately organized village councils; their claim to have emerged from the earth not at the Kezakenoma Stone, but near Chongliyimti on the right bank of the Dikhu; their huge xylophones laboriously hewn out from single logs; their tattooed women-folk; their division into language groups so stable that a husband and his wife will at times converse together each in his or her own language; and their complicated clan and phratry rights, all distinguish them sharply from their Sema and Lhota neighbours.

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In this volume an attempt is made to describe a people which presents several characteristics not found in any of the Naga tribes dealt with in the monographs hitherto pub lished by the Government of Assam. The Ao custom of disposing of their dead by laying them out on platforms; their elaborately organized village councils; their claim to have emerged from the earth not at the Kezakenoma Stone, but near Chongliyimti on the right bank of the Dikhu; their huge xylophones laboriously hewn out from single logs; their tattooed women-folk; their division into language groups so stable that a husband and his wife will at times converse together each in his or her own language; and their complicated clan and phratry rights, all distinguish them sharply from their Sema and Lhota neighbours.

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