The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook two

caption: head tied on menhir
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 29.7.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 23.6.1936-6.1937
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: (106) 29/7/1936 Wakching
text: In front of the Aukheang there stands a menhir and on the top of this the heads were ties for one day. Then they were tied at the drum, and then to the house of the oldest man in the morung.
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