Tribal Life
Patterns older than the nation-state.
More than 200 indigenous communities live across these hills, each with its own language, weave, and reckoning of the year. The portraits here are of people, not of types.
Mon district, Nagaland
The Konyak — The Last Headhunters
Until the 1960s · Living elders
The tattooed faces of the last Konyak headhunters are leaving us. We sat with three of them this winter. They spoke of the morung, the brass-and-glass headhunter's necklace, and the day the missionaries arrived.
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