The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf notebook nine

caption: funeral customs
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Chingtang (Chintang)
date: 28.10.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 29.10.1936-24.3.1937
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: Funeral customs: The Ang corpses are put into wooden coffins, those of Ben people on bamboo biers, all heads are ultimately put into stone cists.
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