The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary four

caption: photography of digging and dancing
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 11.3.1937
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: It had become a quarter past eleven when the three boys finally went to work. The field they are digging is on such a steep slope that I can hardly hold on as I take photographs.