The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary three

caption: Yimsungr and Kalyo Kengyu drums, and forked posts
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Yimsungr
location: Sangpurr
date: 6.12.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 28.11.1936-11.2.1937
note: translated from german by Dr Ruth Barnes
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: The morungs have the same sharply rising roofs as the Chang morungs and most of them hold a slit drum. All drums with one exception are of the Kalyo Kengyu type as we had last seen them in Panso and one of them stands out in the open