The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: Chapter One. The Material Background
caption: Shiong village, different language and tattoos
medium: books
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching Shiong
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date: 1969
refnum: with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York9:1
text: An hour's walk in another direction brought a Wakching man to the small village of Shiong. Here he found himself among people speaking a different language, and dressed and tattooed in a style other than that of his own village.