The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook eight

caption: eclipse
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Tanhai
date: 4.10.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 4.10.1936-23.2.1937
note: [konyak] means text omitted
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: At an eclipse the whole village shout: "Don't eat it, don't eat it". They say the sun is male, but they don't know the sex of the moon. Nor do they have any explanation for eclipses.
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