The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary two

caption: illegitimacy connected with childbirth
medium: diaries
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
seealso: notebook 6,p.141
text: Furthermore I heard some more new things about illegitimate children, divorce and clan incest. An illegitimate child definitely belongs to the clan of the father (notebook 6 p. 141 following).