The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: description of a funeral
caption: Chapter Three. Phases of Life
caption: neighbouring kin
medium: books
person: Chinyak
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date: 1969
refnum: with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York90:6
text: One of the deceased's sister was married in a neighboring village, and she as well as her husband came to the funeral, bringing the traditional gift of a cloth with which to cover the corpse.