The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga notebook seven

caption:

teeth blackening

medium:

notes

ethnicgroup:

Konyak Ao

location:

Anaki

date:

18.3.1937

production:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	23.9.1936-21.3.1937
refnum:	School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

text:

When a Konyak marries an Ao girl, she blackens her teeth; when an Ao married a Konyak girl she may go on blackening her teeth or not. The Ao gaonbura has blackened teeth too.

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