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: rebuilding the house of the Thepong Ang at Wakching
medium: photographs
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
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person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 24.3.19376.1936-5.1937
refnum: 35mm negatives75/44-8 (reversed), 76/1-35
acquirer:
person: private collection
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Caption:setting up posts
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Caption:setting up posts
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Caption:walls of split bamboo being erected
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Caption:post hole
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Caption:tall post erected
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Caption:frontal post with a roughly carved ox or mithan head in relief
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Caption:cow tied down and killed
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Caption:putting up a post and securing the top to another post
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Caption:boys pulling
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Caption:putting up the ridge poles
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Caption:building the roof framework
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Caption:throwing up palm fronds to be used for roofing
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Caption:roofing
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Caption:roofing
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Caption:finished