The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

black and white photographs taken by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, 1936-1937

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caption:

crudely carved mithan head and human skull on a post in the drum house, with strings of plaited bamboo balls representing heads, with a real skull hanging at the end of one and a wooden replica of a head at the end of another, at Holongba

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Sangtam

location:

Holongba

production:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	15.11.1936 6.1936-5.1937
refnum:	35mm negatives 39/11

acquirer:

person:

private collection