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: corpse platform
medium: books
person: Chinyak
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date: 1969
refnum: with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York91:3
text: The bier was placed on the platform and the old men covered the body with a cloth and palm leaves. Then they tied small packets of food onto the platform.
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