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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harpoons for fishing

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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 15:3

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Harpoons of the retriever type were mainly used for spearing fish. They were made up of a plain wooden shaft and a socketed single-barbed head, which was so loosely attached that it left the shaft when it pierced the fish; the coils of the retriever cord unwound as the prey made off and the floating shaft served to point the position of the catch.

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