The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary three

caption:

women preparing pan leaves with chalk for dancers

medium:

diaries

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Shiong

date:

20.12.1936

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 women too have come together and I am watching a group which is squatting on the ground preparing pan leaves with chalk for the dancers. On one of the flat winnowers (105) a woman spreads out pan leaves, then smears a small lump of chalk onto each one, folds all of them up and a girl passes them among the dancers who put them into their mouths during the dance.

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