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: noon ; eating of further rice
medium: books
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date: 1969
refnum: with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York36:5
text: Noon was called 'ni-ning-hei-ha-dzang,' "the time of eating rice," and those working in the fields ate the rice that the women had cooked that morning, either plain or with the addition of some freshly prepared taro and vegetables.