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: older women and school children gather
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Longkhai
date: 3.9.1970
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 12.8.1970-9.9.1970
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: While we talked to her other old women gathered and marvelled at the pictures in my book "The Konyak". At the same time schoolboys and girls in blue shorts and skirts and white blouses gathered. They are divorced in dress and appearance from the old people, and no doubt also in ambitions.