The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary five

caption: the Ouliengbu or spring festival
caption: shaving heads and making leggings
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 22.4.1937
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: The men shave each other's heads so that all that is left is a bunch of hair at the top which is parted along a line which goes from one ear to the other and one tuft is combed to the front the other to the back
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