The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary four

caption: women fetching wood
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Shiong
date: 16.2.1937
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 12.2.1937-31.3.1937
note: translated from german by Dr Ruth Barnes
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: While we were in the fields I saw a group of women going off to fetch wood. When I climbed up the endless steep stone steps up to the village I felt sorry for them for having to carry up the heavy load every day.
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