The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary two

caption: narrow women's aprons; menstrual blood
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Oting
date: 6.10.1936
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: The women's aprons are if possible even narrower than in Shiong and do not go all the way around but leave one hip exposed