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58. the head hunters

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One of the issues I have not yet discussed in great detail, is the head hunting history of the Naga, and especially of the Konyaks, who were apparently the fiercest, and who continued longest, probably well into the 1960s. Our own guide is pretty useless, and not readily forthcoming with information, but we overhear the [...]
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more portraits

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Just like in Longwa, the village of Sheanghah Chingnyu also invites for some great photographs of the locals. Men, in traditional dress, complete with hats and wild pig teeth, or not. The women, contenders in the spinning competition. And the chief, with horns through his earlobes. Note that the tattooed former head hunters have been [...]
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the games

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It is not the best of sports photography, but I think the games at the Aolyang Festival in Sheanghah Chingnyu do warrant some extra attention. Walking on stilts, they do that at the annual festival in our Dutch village, too, but running, no way! And the inventors of the pole climbing competition, how mean can [...]
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57. Sheanghah Chingnyu

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As the festival in Longwa is finished, at least the public part of it – the villagers themselves party another three days, but privately, in families and clans – we spend the next day in another village, Sheanghah Chingnyu, where Aolyang is celebrated a day later. And whilst we anticipated on similar delays staring up [...]
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