The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook six

caption: food taboos
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 5.9.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 28.8.1936-26.10.1936
refnum: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (76) Shankok's clan doesn't eat Huluk. Only the old men and women eat the Great Indian Hornbill. Dzem-ang says that the women don't eat of tiger's kill.