The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook seven

caption: food taboos
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Kongan
date: 25.9.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 23.9.1936-21.3.1937
refnum: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: Food taboos:
text: For all people are genna:
goat
frog
snakes
crow
tiger
cat
mice and rats (even jungle rat)
red monkey
text: (50) Women don't eat:
bear
huluk
text: All those clans who wear the quills of porcupines in their ears don't eat mithan because they think that the mithans with their horns are related to them. Only old people eat of a tiger's kill.
text: Animals which died of a natural death are not eaten.
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