The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook eight

caption: suicide
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Hungphoi
date: 14.10.1936
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: Suicide is not unknown. Sometimes old people who have no family or are not suicide [sic] commit suicide by hanging or also younger people whose wives and children have died. Suicide is not considered an apothia death.
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