The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf Naga diary on his return to Nagaland, 1970

caption: sitting board with hornbill heads and double-faced heads
medium: diaries
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Totok
date: 4.9.1970
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 12.8.1970-9.9.1970
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: In a morung there is a peculiar sitting board. It not only ends in hornbill heads, but has near the end three excretions carved in the shape of double-faced heads.
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