The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary four

caption: carrying in the head at Oting, dancing and ceremonial
caption: beating drums and gongs
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Oting
date: 28.2.1937
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: The boys then run to their morungs and beat the drum. Other men in the meantime have brought along gongs and they are playing them while sitting on the platform