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: many guns and few wild animals
medium: diaries
person: ChinyangShoupa
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 2.9.1970
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 12.8.1970-9.9.1970
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: Shoupa entertained us with the meat of a freshly killed deer. There are now many guns in the village and game has become very sparse. Chinyang said that hardly a bird remained even in the reserved village forest.