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: girls entertain boys after rice weeding and try to make them drunk
medium: books
ethnicgroup: Konyak
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date: 1969
refnum: with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York33:2
text: A few days later the girls would return the hospitality, and then it was their ambition to make the boys drunk. Two girls might then drag or carry one of their intoxicated friends up the hill to the village.