The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary three

caption: head receiving dance
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Tanhai
date: 31.12.1936
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
seealso: notebook 8,p.164
text: Now in front of the Yan-lem morung the dance starts which is hardly different from Wakching's dances. One of the decorated dancers wears an entire bird of prey as a head-dress with wings stretched out widely
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