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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planting and harvesting of taro

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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 32:3

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The planting as well as the harvesting of taro was exclusively women's work. Using digging sticks and small dao, they dug holes, and in these they planted the tubers. A man would have been ashamed even to carry taro to or from the fields.

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