The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

Furer-Haimendorf manuscript spiral bound notebook three

caption: no ceremonies when boys enter morungs
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Tamlu
date: 7.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 7.1936-12.1936
note: [konyak] means text omitted
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (56) When the boys enter the morung no ceremonies are made, but an old man of the morung cuts their hair, leaving only a few long ones on the top of the head.