The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary three

caption: skull trees and decorations of skulls in Panso
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Kalyo Kengyu
location: Panso
date: 4.12.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 28.11.1936-11.2.1937
note: translated from german by Dr Ruth Barnes
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: The skull trees are not in the immediate vicinity of the morungs. Long bamboo poles lean against the erithrinas, heads hanging from them