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India - Manipur - Imphal - Leishangthem Kananbala, 46 years old. From Wangkhei Imphal East.She has been working in the Ima Market for nine years. The stall belongs to one of her aunts, it’s a clan thing, her aunt couldn’t continue, so she bought the stall permanently from that aunt,She belongs to the clan of the knives from her father side. Only this clan can make the knives, and only the clan can sell knives, only for the Ima Market - it doesn’t apply in other parts of...
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India - Manipur - Imphal - Leishangthem Kananbala, 46 years old. From Wangkhei Imphal East.She has been working in the Ima Market for nine years. The stall belongs to one of her aunts, it’s a clan thing, her aunt couldn’t continue, so she bought the stall permanently from that aunt,She belongs to the clan of the knives from her father side. Only this clan can make the knives, and only the clan can sell knives, only for the Ima Market - it doesn’t apply in other parts of Manipur (the clan name is Thangjam). Other clans produce knives, but only the Thangjam clan is allowed to sell them in the Ima Market.
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