The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook fourteen

caption: taro planting and building field house
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 21.5.1937
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 1.5.1937-3.6.1937
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
seealso: notebook 9,p.56
text: In the month Tepili (on the 5th day) Yongmek builds his field house (cf. NB 9. p. 155). This is called Tep-wang-bu. The village is not genna. In Tepili also the taro is planted (cf. NB 9., p. 56).