The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook eight

caption: burial of small babies
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Longkhai
date: 17.10.1936
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: Quite small babies up to about three months are buried by the old women, but in the ordinary way wrapped in a mat and in the funeral place. For them too the whole village is genna for one day.
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