The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary one

caption: genealogies and language
medium: diaries
person: Nga-mang/ of Wakching
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 3.8.1936
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
seealso: notebook 2 p.170
text: In the morning two small boys came to see me, Nga-mang from Wakching and Ahon's son. I talked to them for a while, took down Nga-mang's genealogy (notebook 2 p. 170) and asked them (162) for words and simple sentences in the Wakching dialect.