The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook ten

caption: Wakching customs about field work
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 9.3.1937
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 24.2.1937-11.4.1937
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (79) Wakching 9/3/1937
text: Wakching custom:
text: While all the people go to their fields at sowing time, in each morung remain two adult men (nau-she-lau) and three boys (she-la-lau). [konyak] (80-86).