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: old Ang with twenty wives
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Tang
date: 6.9.1970
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 12.8.1970-9.9.1970
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: The old Ang has still some 20 wives, but most of them are of Ben class and quite old, and hardly distinguishable from domestic servants. Many of these women have cut hair.
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