The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary four

caption: hoeing in the fields
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 14.3.1937
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: (177) We saw people at work on a nearby field. A row of ten women and girls loosen up the ground with their small hoes and in front of them a young man walks up and down planting the rice