The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

Furer-Haimendorf manuscript spiral bound notebook one

caption: photographs and forked posts
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Sema
location: Ungoma (Iganumi)
date: 9.6.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 2.6.1936-17.12.1936
note: [konyak] means text omitted
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (57) 9th June
text: They don't drag stones at Iganumi, but the forked posts take the place of them - the heads are the man and the woman
23-25 Working team
26 man planting rice seedlings
27-30 Y posts
31 women drying rice
32 tally of human heads
33 skulls of game
34 Y-post