The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary three

caption: dancing and shouting as skull brought in to Wanching
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wanching
date: 18.12.1936
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: (82) Now the men slowly dance in their heads bowed, singing full of deep seriousness, their dao in their right hand and moving it up and down to the rhythm
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