The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook three

caption: inheritance
medium: notes
person: Shankok
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 16.8.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 8.1936-6.1937
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (89) SHANKOK'S brothers got each 500 Rs. from their father over which they can freely dispose. They got each one long and one short necklace, the long worth about 130 Rs., they can't sell them, but they can give them to their children.