The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

book : Return to the Naked Nagas (1939;1976)

caption: Chapter Six. Death in the Rain
caption: a long bier carried into the house
medium: books
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 6.1936-6.1937
text: Early in the afternoon some old men carried an open bamboo bier into the house, and it was not long before I heard a solemn and curiously urgent voice addressing the dead: "Enter the land of the dead. Do not be afraid, and if you are asked whose son you are say: 'I am Chinyak, son of Yongmek'."
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