The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook nine

caption: tattooing
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 13.2.1937
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 29.10.1936-24.3.1937
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (105) Tattooing: Two women know how to tattoo at Wakching: Li-niu of Ang-nok-pong clan, the elder sister of Dzemang, the Ang of Balang, married to Yophong of Balang. Nangpha, her sister, married to an Aukheang man, (Yongem). (106-109) Inf: Chinyong