The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook five

caption: sign for birth on a roof
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wanching
date: 25.8.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 25.8.1936-5.5.1937
refnum: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (6) For the birth of a son, a bamboo is put at the roof, for a daughter a branch of cane.
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