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: preparations for Spring festival or Ouliengbu at Wakching
caption: Shankok demonstrating the old method of trimming hair against the sharp edge of a dao
medium: photographs
person: Shankok
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 23.4.19376.1936-5.1937
refnum: 35mm negatives85/4
acquirer:
person: private collection
seealso: Furer-Haimendorf, Naked Nagas, p.212