The Nagas

naga sketches P53732.jpg a Naga palaver house. It is also the bachelors' dormitory and barracks where all the unmarried young men of the village sleep, and in front of which the great dances are held....
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naga sketches P53733.jpg a bachelors' hall. Such barracks for the unmarried men and youths of the village are found amongst the Naga, Ching-po, Mikoi and Mishmi tribes. They are called 'morung', and a...
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naga sketches P53734.jpg a Naga warrior. Below his hand his spear is elaborately decorated with goat's hair dyed in crimson and black bands; above it is arranged in several tiers to resemble the scalp...
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naga sketches P53735.jpg a Naga spirit shrine. Tall bamboos retaining many of their leaves unstripped are decorated with tufts and wreaths of woolly grass, and offerings are made in front of them. pho...
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naga sketches P53736.jpg the village war-drum. Every village has a war-drum made from a hollow tree-trunk. It is struck by logs of wood to rouse the warriors in case of alarms. photographs (photo by W...
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naga sketches P53737.jpg a head-hunting custom. Effigies of human heads are hung on the walls of a Naga palaver-house (morung) as tokens of actual heads taken in raids. They are carved out of wood or ...
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naga sketches P53738.jpg a Naga dandy. As this warrior is a young dandy, he sticks a wooden comb through his back hair-knot. photographs (photo by H. Brian Hill) (p.1184)
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naga sketches C53739.jpg naga sketches C53740.jpg 'kharu teshu' - log pulling for the village gate, Kohima village, 1976 photographs Kohima Angami/ Joyce 1976
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naga sketches C53741.jpg Champang near Mon (man with cartridge case in his ear lobe) Champang Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches C53742.jpg Sangratsu (woman with crystal earrings and necklace) Sangratsu Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches C53743.jpg Sangratsu - entrance to village (Christian symbol, picture of Christ) Sangratsu Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches C53744.jpg Sangratsu - lower part of village, the upper section is more modern Sangratsu Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches C53744.jpg Chichima - a private dwelling roofed with corrugated iron with carved wooden front boards Chichima Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches C53746.jpg Tuensang-Mon road - two people with a dog Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches C53747.jpg Chichima - private dwelling Chichima Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches C53748.jpg in Mon village - two men reading a comic Mon Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches C53749.jpg Chui village - burial ground; skulls in cists Chi (Chui) Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches C53750.jpg Shengnyu - outside the Ang's house feet engraved in stone Shengnyu Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches C53751.jpg young woman with a child on her back Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches C53752.jpg Sangratsu museum, opened 1986 Sangratsu Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches C53753.jpg Champang - man with ceremonial hat on Champang Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches C53754.jpg naga sketches C53756.jpg panel at Shengnyu in Ang's house (copulating couple, figures of warriors, figures of monkeys) Shengnyu Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches P53757.jpg naga sketches P53758.jpg Tuensang village, reconstructed morung (a model aeroplane hanging from the rafters - carvings of mithan heads, men, human heads) Tuensang Khilani/ Sun...
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naga sketches P53759.jpg Tuensang village - young man (in jeans and teeshirt) Tuensang Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches P53760.jpg Mon? - mithan skull on Ang's house Mon Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches P53761.jpg village street Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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Tuensang village - dance for visitors Tuensang Khilani/ Sunil 1986 Caption:two men wearing helmets with boars' tusks and fur, also shirts decorated with buttons instead of cowrie-shells in the shape o...
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naga sketches P53765.jpg gaonbura's house ? Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches P53766.jpg Tuensang village - old man in dance dress Tuensang Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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naga sketches P53767.jpg Tuensang village - grave? Tuensang Khilani/ Sunil 1986
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