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: girl's dormitories
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Zemi
location: Nenglo (Nionglopunga)
date: 21.8.1970
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 12.8.1970-9.9.1970
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: On the way out of the village I photographed two girls' dormitories, - ordinary houses thus used. There was a bench in front of each;- to be used by boys on ceremonial occasions. Then there is a link between one morung and one girls' dormitory, but normally boys from either morung may come.