The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary one

caption: funeral markers and corpse platforms
medium: diaries
person: Chingyam/ of Wakching
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 12.7.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 2.6.1936-11.7.1936
note: translated from german by Dr Ruth Barnes
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: On the way from the village to the fields we saw the funeral marker of a man called Chingyam (film 17 no. 9)