The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary three

caption: canoe on Dikhu with Christmas picnic
medium: diaries
person: Castles
location: Borjan Dikhu R.
date: 25.12.1936
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: Not too early we climbed into Castles' dugout at the bank of the Dikhu, quite a spacious (118) although slightly wobbly vehicle which two of his people row standing at either end, or push up stream in shallow waters.