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 taking dance
medium: photographs
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Tanhai
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person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 31.12.19366.1936-5.1937
refnum: 35mm negatives55/13-22,8 (reversed)
acquirer:
person: private collection
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Caption:man with a headdress made of a bird with wings outstretched
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Caption:men outside a morung
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Caption:elderly man wearing a striped cloth and a hat with narrow horns ending in tassels
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Caption:man with the bird headdress
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Caption:man with the piece of skull in a basket