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:

log-drums

medium:

notes

location:

Holongba (Holungba) Noko (Nukhu)

production:

person:	Archer/ W.G.
date:	1946-1948
refnum:	5:42

text:

Holungba.

text:

1. Log drum with thin protruding neck and small face - 2 hornbill heads at the tail - a piece of skull nailed to the face (a Kalyu Kenyu one from Nukhu in Nov. 1938).

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2. In another khel a drum with fully carved buffalo's head and horns.

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It is as if the drumming gives the monster a life of its own - the protruding head gently nods as the dumb-bells hammer the trunk - as if the great animal were acquiesing in the rhythm.

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