The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary four

caption: celebration for Ghawang
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Namsang
date: 19.3.1937
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: This happened yesterday. Today the men were drinking rice beer of a cloudy dirty brown colour which was ladled out in front of the morung from large plaited containers smeared with tar