The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

16mm colour film taken by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf in 1970

caption: funeral, ritual at grave at Yoting village
medium: films
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Yoting
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf/ C.F.
date: 8.9.19708.1970-9.1970
acquirer:
person: private collection
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Caption:children holding bunches of flowers
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Caption:coming out of a house with a gong
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Caption:group of children
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Caption:beating gong
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Caption:group of children
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Caption:carrying corpse out of house, firing guns
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Caption:corpse being carried in procession
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Caption:bible, corpse, and procession
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Caption:coffin
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Caption:dog killed to be buried with corpse
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Caption:men filling in the grave
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Caption:beating gong