The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: Chapter Twenty. With Pangsha's Enemies
caption: promise to bring back heads
medium: books
location: Wakching
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 6.1936-6.1937
text: These discussions naturally make me think of my Wakching friends, and my promise to bring them back a trophy. I wonder which attitude they will take, but since they even substitute wooden models for the heads of fallen foes, I think they will accept the looted Pangsha heads as welcome trophies.