The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary three

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single man jumps, shouts and dances

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	28.11.1936-11.2.1937
note:	translated from german by Dr Ruth Barnes

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School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

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Here he now starts a wildly moving dance remaining virtually on one spot but while jumping, twisting to the right and left, accompanied by shrill cries, he brandishes his dao and seems to challenge a crowd of enemies to fight for life or death. Another man takes over, then the group of dancers move on. An open space where obviously a house is to be built allows them to form a circle.

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