The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary five

caption: buying ethnographic objects
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 13.4.1937
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 1.4.1937-26.6.1937
note: translated from german by Dr Ruth Barnes
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: Wakching 13/4/1937
text: Still people come streaming towards our bungalow to sell things to the 'new sahib'. This provides a good opportunity at the moment as I have received a large order from the Vienna Museum and I buy more than Kauffmann, but much time is lost this way.