The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary four

caption: dressing Ang's daughter; cool beauty of Ngapnun
medium: diaries
person: Ngapnun
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Longkhai
date: 24.2.1937
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: Just now the girls are making a fan-like head ornament of hornbill feathers for the Ang's little daughter. The Ang's wife would like to pile anything of value onto this child