The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary one

caption: a pleasant party
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Ao
location: Merangkong
date: 19.7.1936
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: I reciprocated with a few cigarettes for the large amount of rice beer I had drunk during the long conversation and these were smoked with pleasure, even by the ladies, and finally I left this pleasant party feeling slightly tipsy.