The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook two

caption: lord of the dead
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 26.7.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 23.6.1936-6.1937
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (64) Doloba [Toropa overwritten] - lord of the dead, sits on the half way, he is like a very big man. Doloba makes the people who are deaf or blind go on the bad way' - also the bad people, as thieves, robbers, - also the people who died an apotia death