The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary three

caption: further dancing
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 young men danced a few more times around the hill with the stones and then they returned dancing to their own morungs. Ahon declared that this finished the ceremonies and that tomorrow would not be a genna day. I too turned to go home.