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: brother of former chowkidar
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 28.8.1970
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 12.8.1970-9.9.1970
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: We had not been expected, but the bungalow was soon opened. The brother of the late chowkidar of my days, an old wizened man, is now chowkidar and he could hardly believe that it was really I who had returned.