The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook five

caption: porcupine quills
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wanching
date: 3.5.1937
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 25.8.1936-5.5.1937
refnum: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (62) Porcupine quills:
text: Only the women of the Balang, Totang and Balang (sic) wear porcupine quills in their ears. The women of Dzing-shiu and Pandzong don't wear them.