The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary one

caption: ideal plan of an Ao village
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Ao
date: 14.7.1936
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: He also took me to another khel which is placed apart from the main village and is at some distance from it as a separate little community. Here one can observe the ideal plan of an Ao village. A straight road along a mountain ridge with a row of houses at either side and a morung in a raised position at the end. ( SKETCH
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