The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary four

caption: young men dancing
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Longkhai
date: 23.2.1937
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: In the meantime the younger men were dancing in front of their morungs and through the village, but so far these dances are only for show without any ritual character