The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary four

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girl in photograph completely changed

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	12.2.1937-31.3.1937
note:	translated from german by Dr Ruth Barnes

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School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

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B.49585

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In the Autumn I had photographed a girl who had been running around my hut stark naked all day long and who I had noticed because of her strongly curled hair. This time I missed her and when I showed the photograph around and asked about her she was called. She seemed completely changed, dressed in a white cloth, her hair straightened and held with a ribbon, I would never have recognised her.

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