The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary two

caption: playing with a monkey; funeral place and figures
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Oting
date: 8.10.1936
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: We then went into the house of the Ding-don gaonbura who is a special hoki of Mills. His numerous family was gathered around and the children were playing with a delightful little monkey whose mother had been killed on a hunt