The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters

caption:

funeral rituals and memorials to the dead

medium:

notes

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Kongan (Kongon)

production:

person:	Archer/ W.G.
date:	1946-1948
refnum:	9:19

text:

Konyak. Kongon. grave effigies. No effigies - the dead exposed in platforms in open coffins roofed with palm leaves - a row of coffins with twin hornbills carved on the lid - in a separate place bamboo structures as memorial - with chillies, plantains and the impedimenta of the dead - wooden model of spears, daos etc. - by the path - (nothing for soul-substance to leak into)

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