The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary four

caption: boys dance
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Namsang
date: 20.3.1937
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: In the afternoon some boys put on festive ornaments and dance for me in the manner as I know it from individual dances in Wakching. I take a few pictures, also some of the two singers with their string instruments