The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary five

caption:

Shikna , Shankok's lover

medium:

diaries

person:

Shankok Shikna Medzou

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Wakching

date:

28.4.1937

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:

Near the house we happened to see Shikna, Shankok's lover, who will probably soon give birth to her child. Quite casually I said to Medzou, "There is Shikna", while he of course knew that I was thinking of Shankok. Medzou made a very serious face in response and said embarrassed, "She is my daughter, therefore I cannot say anything". (104) Of course he only means that she is his daughter in the sense of the morung relationship.

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