The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

book : 'Konyak Nagas' by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, (1969)

caption: Introduction
caption: a neolithic economy
medium: books
ethnicgroup: Konyak
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date: 1969
refnum: with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York3:1
text: The economy of these Southeast Asian hill tribes was thus basically similar to that of the neolithic age, notwithstanding the fact that even the most primitive among them knew the use of metal, and some were experienced in the working of iron as well as of brass.