The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: head receiving dance at Wakching
medium: photographs
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
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person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 18.12.19366.1936-5.1937
refnum: 35mm negatives52/1-32
acquirer:
person: private collection
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Caption:man wearing helmet decorated with thin horn, hair dangling from the ends
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Caption:Shankok's brother carrying the head in a basket
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Caption:decorated hats
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Caption:naked man dancing
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Caption:huge hat decorated with hornbill beaks, thin horn and hair
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Caption:naked man dancing
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Caption:man wearing huge hat decorated with hornbill beaks
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Caption:dancing outside the Thepong morung, a megalith in the foreground
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Caption:dancing outside the Thepong morung