The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary three

caption: stone to commemorate skull carried in procession
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: Now the entire procession moves. Two boys carry the stone tied to a bamboo which is to immortalize the getting of the head