The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary two

caption: skull cupboard in morung
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wangla
date: 11.10.1936
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: At a side wall there is a cupboard with three rows of altogether thirty skulls. They are already quite old and in addition a lot of leaves have been tied to them which are still from the Sha-dzan-wan-bu.