The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary two

caption: Shankok badly cut by dao
medium: diaries
person: Shankok
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 20.9.1936
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: Shankok comes in the evening. He has cut himself with his dao. A deep cut at his knee. A real misfortune during the rice harvest. I covered the wound but he probably will not be able to work for some time.
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