The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary three

caption: feasting and dancing in Tamlu on receiving a skull
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Tamlu
date: 16.12.1936
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: At the village gate they formed a genuine procession and marched in pronouncing their deeds in triumph. At each of the morungs one of the groups stayed, danced a few times in a circle