The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

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Chapter One. The Material Background

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universal carrying of weapons

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books

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Konyak

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date:	1969
refnum:	with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 14:7

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No Konyak ever left his village unless he was armed; he did not feel "dressed" if he had not at least a dao stuck in his belt or a spear in his hand. Even small boys carried miniature spears when they went to work in the fields.

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