The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary two

caption: girls wear grass skirts; nakedness of some girls
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Hungphoi
date: 13.10.1936
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: (129) Already in Wangla I had seen a girl with a grass skirt which I acquired. Here many girls wear this kind of skirt, sometimes over the short apron
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