The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary one

caption: cooking pig for person sick with dysentery
medium: diaries
person: NlamoTsampio
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 29.7.1936
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: When we returned through the village we just came upon some men who were dividing a pig and cooking it in a great pot in front of the house of someone who is sick with dysentery