The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary one

caption: another pet bird
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 27.8.1936
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
text: In the evening children brought me a young bird they had found along the path. It is of the sort which shaman use as familiars. I hope I can raise him.