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: house of late translator Ahon
medium: diaries
person: Ahon/ of Shiong
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Shiong
date: 31.8.1970
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 12.8.1970-9.9.1970
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: We went to the house of the late Dobashi Ahon. In front is a memorial slab with an engraved inscription in English, saying that Ahon was head dobashi and gaonbura in the times of British rule. Oddly the inscription ended with the words 'age 200'.