The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf Naga diary on his return to Nagaland, 1970

caption: spinning cotton
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Zemi
location: Laisong
date: 17.8.1970
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 12.8.1970-9.9.1970
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: Most people were on the jhums, and there was little to see. Yet I managed to film a woman spinning cotton with the simple machine which is used also by the Konyaks and most other Naga tribes.
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