Career
Hailing from the Ao Naga tribe in Nagaland, he was the first graduate from the tribe and the first Naga headmaster of the Impur Mission Training M. East. School, the oldest school in the region, where he served from 1927 to 1940. In 1948, he was appointed as the headmaster of the Government High School Mokokchung. Three years later, he died at the age of 86.
His life has been documented in a biography, Mayangnokcha, the Pathfinder and the Government High School Mokokchung was renamed after him on 16 June 1994 as Mayangnokcha High School.