The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

Furer-Haimendorf manuscript spiral bound notebook two

caption: head-stone, hail
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
date: 10.7.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 2.6.1936-12.1936
note: [konyak] means text omitted
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (17-18) 10th July. Shiong
text: GERMAN morung a head-stone - the taken head is put in front of it - then it is stuck on a bamboo pile.
text: GERMAN
text: (19) The millet has been damaged so bad by hail that the people just go down and cut off a little for their evening meal, as it is not worth to put them into the granaries.
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