The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook three

caption: formal friendships
medium: notes
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: There are formal friendships, but no gifts are exchanged, except food and drink. [konyak]
text: (96) Those friends arrange that they will come to each other's funerals - even the 'ei-ba's'.
text: If a man is killed his friends will try to take revenge for him.
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