The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: burial of a dead woman, the funeral ritual at Yoting village
medium: films
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Yoting
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf/ C.F.
date: 8.9.19708.1970-9.1970
acquirer:
refnum: private collection
clip:
Caption:splitting bamboos to make the grave cover
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Caption:dead person's house with smoke coming out
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Caption:the funeral bier for carrying corpse
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Caption:inside the house of death, men sitting
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Caption:waiting outside the house of death
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Caption:carrying the corpse to the grave and preparing the coffin
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Caption:preparing the grave and hut to cover it
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Caption:making a bamboo fence for grave
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Caption:sewing a banana leaf roof for grave