The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary two

caption: man wears collected items
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 22.10.1936
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: Today some young men from Punkhung came to the bungalow. We had a lot of fun when I decorated one of them splendidly with ornaments and weapons from my collection and photographed him as he was putting on each piece