The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary four

caption: girls dance
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Chingtang (Chintang)
date: 28.3.1937
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 early afternoon the girls of both morungs begin to dance. Two platforms have been built for this, one behind the Ang's house next to the "girl's morung", and one in front of the house of a man of the original Ang family.
refnext: Next
refprev: Previous