Carving a decorated open coffin at Wakching

Full title: Carving a decorated open coffin at Wakching [electronic resource] English.
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Language: English
Published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1936.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
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024 7 |a PP MS 19/6/NAGA/0467  |2 SOAS manuscript number 
024 7 |a 021_09_Caprigy(?) Wood  |2 Haimendorf reference 
040 |a LOA  |c LOA 
245 0 0 |a Carving a decorated open coffin at Wakching  |h [electronic resource]  |y English. 
260 |a [S.l.] :  |b [s.n.],  |c 1936. 
500 |a This item is protected by copyright. Please use in accord with Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC). High resolution digital master available from SOAS, University of London - the Digital Library Project Office. 
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500 |a Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1909-1995) was born and educated in Vienna, gaining a PhD in anthropology from the University of Vienna in 1931. A grant from the Rockefeller Foundation enabled him to study at the London School of Economics, under the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. In 1936, he went to the Naga Hills in northeast India for his first fieldwork; over the next four decades, he worked extensively in south & central India, northeast India and Nepal. In 1950 he was appointed Professor of Anthropology at SOAS, where he established the Department of Anthropology. During his career, he published seventeen books, most of them ethnographies of tribal cultures. He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1975-77) and a pioneer in the field of visual anthropology. 
500 |a On the 25th of July, a man of the Ang-Bang morung dies in the evening : the log drum is played immediately to inform the villagers : the morning after the death, the clansmen of the deceased bring a large log from the jungle and cut it into shape using their dao-axes : One of the men working on the coffin is entirely naked, others wear a dark loincloth fixed around their waists with a cane ring : Using a chisel, the ends of the coffin are formed into several heads of a hornbill bird : after the woodcarving is finished, an old man comes to colour the hornbill heads bright red : at last a whole is cut into the coffin to allow the fluids of the rotting body to drain off : Into the finished coffin, a braided bamboo mat is placed into which the body will be partly wrapped before the open coffin is placed upon a platform in the forest : after the body is disintegrated enough, its head will be taken off to be kept separately inside a hollowed stone. 
500 |a This scene was photographed on or approximate to 19360721 
500 |a Other designation of photograph: 021/09/Caprigy(?) Wood 
500 |a Original Container: BW Negatives Box I 
500 |a Haimendorf's reference: 021_09_Caprigy(?) Wood 
500 |a BW Negatives Box I 
500 |a Funded in the United Kingdom by JISC 
500 |a SOAS name authority for "Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist" is GB/NNAF/P146323. 
500 |a VIAF (name authority) : Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 : record number 109123273 
500 |a For descriptive reference, see: PP MS 19, Diary1 : 131ff 
506 |a © 1936, The Estate of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. The Estate is currently (2015) represented by Nicholas Haimendorf, son of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. ----- Creative Commons (by-nc-nd). -- This image may be used in accord with Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction.  |b London :  |c SOAS, University of London,  |c Archives and Special Collections,  |d 2015.  |f (SOAS Digital Library)  |n Mode of access: World Wide Web.  |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. 
535 1 |a Archives and Special Collections. 
650 |a Morungs. 
650 0 |a Coffins. 
650 0 |a Hornbills in art. 
650 |a ताबूतों. 
650 |a धनेश -- कलात्मक काम. 
650 0 |a Naga (South Asian people). 
650 |a एशिया -- भारत -- नगालैंड -- मोन जिला. 
650 |a Asia -- India -- Nagaland -- Mon District -- Naginimora Tehsil -- Wakching. 
655 7 |a Phom Naga  |2 ethnicity 
655 7 |a नागा  |2 ethnicity 
655 7 |a Konyak Naga  |2 ethnicity 
655 0 |a Konyak (Indic people). 
655 7 |a कोन्याक नागा  |2 ethnicity 
655 7 |a Naga  |2 ethnicity 
720 1 |a Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995.  |4 pht 
720 1 |a Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995.  |4 ctb 
720 1 |a Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist.  |4 ctb 
752 |a India  |b Nagaland  |c Mon District  |d Wakching. 
830 0 |a SOAS Digital Library. 
830 0 |a FURER. 
830 0 |a RSA. 
830 0 |a PHOTOS. 
852 |a SOAS 
856 4 0 |y Electronic Resource 
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