The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary five

caption: poor drawing skills
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 29.5.1937
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: I now get boys to draw with pencil on paper. The quality of their drawings is surprisingly poor. My little wild cat has found a companion. Towang found another one of the same size, no doubt the sister. Both are eating well.