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:

grave effigies

medium:

notes

location:

Mon

production:

person:	Archer/ W.G.
date:	1946-1948
refnum:	9:20

text:

Mon. gaonbura of Mon. Figures in pairs in little shed - only big men get it - cloths - never women - no Konyak custom of putting up effigies for women - no effigies for enemies killed by them.

text:

'We do it out of respect for the dead so that his name may long remain'

text:

'We dress him in his clothes so that all may know him'

text:

'To lessen sorrow'.

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