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 Four. Religious Beliefs and Practices

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feeding of skulls of dead

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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 94:4

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The periodic feeding of the skulls of the dead, both those of kinsmen and those of slain enemies, was also indicative of a belief in the power of the soul matter which remained on this earth, while the 'yaha' had long settled down to a new life in the next world.

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