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:

groups of Nagas on path

medium:

diaries

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Tijit

date:

25.8.1970

production:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	12.8.1970-9.9.1970

acquirer:

person:

private collection

text:

Next we came to the forest settlement of Tijit, consisting (51) of office buildings and houses. There most people seemed non-tribal, but on the road were groups of unmistakable Konyaks. They looked exactly the same as 34 years ago. Narrow belts, tattooed faces, chewing betel and carrying baskets and palm leaves as umbrellas.

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