The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary one

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skulls and remains

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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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Then we passed a skull place (157). The urns stand in small groups separated by clans. The skulls of women are placed together with their husband's clan. A conical basket stands above each of the urns. While adults are placed on their own platforms, the corpses of children are put into trees, usually ficus.

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