The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

book : 'Konyak Nagas' by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, (1969)

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Chapter One. The Material Background

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chest ornaments, carved heads

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books

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Konyak

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date:	1969
refnum:	with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 13:5

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Among the most cherished ornaments of head-takers were small carved wooden heads worn on the chest. Some of these were of great artistic merit, but similar heads made of brass were of much cruder form.

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