The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption:

Chapter Three. Phases of Life

caption:

boys asked to help with weeding in girls' fields

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books

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Wakching

production:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date:	1969
refnum:	with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 73:5

text:

During the long months when the rice fields had to be weeded, the girls would ask their boyfriends to help them with this monotonous task, and in response to such a request, two or three Oukheang boys would work with a gang of Balang girls on the fields of one of the girls' fathers.

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