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: dressing up in ceremonial clothes
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 30.8.1970
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 12.8.1970-9.9.1970
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: Later I was asked to photograph various members of the family and this led to the dressing up in ceremonial clothes. There was no possibility of a dance, but at least I filmed the putting on of ornaments.