The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook eight

caption: food gennas
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Oting
date: 6.10.1936
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: (37) Food gennas:
text: genna for all people:
dog
rats and mice
civet cat
crow
cat
birds which live on the ground except jungle fowl
snakes
text: genna for the Ang clan:
tiger
text: genna for women:
bear
(38) Goat is not genna, but generally not eaten. For lepers mithan, cow and buffalo are genna.
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