The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary three

caption: Aukheang morung perform final ceremony for head, feasting and dancing
caption: bits of skull put into bamboo heads
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 17.1.1937
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: (179) Now from each clan a man climbs up and gets the baskets. The small pieces of bone are taken out and are put into the bamboo heads all of which now already have been equipped with horns
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