The Apa Tanis and Their Neighbours: A Primitive Civilization of the Eastern Himalayas

akha animals Apa Tani valley Assamese Assamese silk bamboo Bela Bhotia boys buliang captured cattle ceremonial clan-name cloth cows cultivation Dafla and Miri Dafla or Miri Dafla villages deities disputes dry fields Duta earth economic feuds forest gambu gardens girls granaries groups groves Haja Hang Hari hoes house-site households husband inhabitants khel Khru killed kinsmen known Lampung land lapang Licha lisudu living married master master's house Michi-Bamin millet Miri neighbours mite and mura mithan Mloko Morom Mudang-Tage mura clan Nagas nago negotiations neighbouring Daflas North Lakhimpur North-East Frontier Agency patang patrician Pemir pigs plains of Assam Ponyo prestige priest pue yagi raid ransom rice-fields rites ritual sacrifice settlement slaves social sold status Subansiri region swords Tani country Tani society Tani valley Tani villages Tanis and Daflas terraces Tibet Tibetan Tibetan bells tion trade partners traditional tribal tribes unhusked rice usually wealth wife women young