The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

illustrations from 'Customs of the World'

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caption: a head-hunting custom. Effigies of human heads are hung on the walls of a Naga palaver-house (morung) as tokens of actual heads taken in raids. They are carved out of wood or small gourds and painted.
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note: (photo by W.H. Furness 3rd) (p.1181)