The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary two

caption: harvesting for wages
medium: diaries
person: Yongang
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 17.9.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 2.6.1936-11.7.1937
note: translated from german by Dr Ruth Barnes
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (46) Wakching 17/9/1936.
text: In the morning I went to the fields with Yongang. The harvest is now in full swing. The boys and young men of the The-phong morung are just now working on the field of Yong-wei, the second wealthiest man of Wakching. He had requested the services of about twenty of them for two rupees and in addition he supplied food and madhu.
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