The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary one

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coffin painted and mat put inside

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	2.6.1936-11.7.1936
note:	translated from german by Dr Ruth Barnes

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School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

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(133) Now came an ancient old man, his thin body only covered with a narrow belt. He brought a few handfuls of red soil wrapped up in leaves. He now ground this up in a pottery shard and with water he mixed a thin paste. Then he tested the coffin, added a last touch to the carvings, and began to paint the hornbill heads in red

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