The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary one

caption:

Sema dancing

medium:

diaries

ethnicgroup:

Ao Sema

location:

Mokokchung

date:

16.7.1936

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:

After the Ao it was the turn of some Sema boys whose dance was hardly different from the Ao but for them one boy danced alone in front of them in vividly moving rhythms and he threw his spear a bit into the air. (107) The row always danced a little while clockwise then the dancers jumped into the air and shouted and danced backwards some steps. I tried to take some photographs although the light was not very good any more. (film 18 nos. 22-35)

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