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:

wife of Mon Ang gives birth, so village taboo and visit postponed

medium:

diaries

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Mon

date:

25.8.1970

production:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	12.8.1970-9.9.1970

acquirer:

person:

private collection

text:

(52) Mon, 26th August

text:

Today I should have gone to Mon village, but news has come that the chiefly wife of the Mon Ang has given birth to a child, and that his house is therefore genna.

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