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  • Trophies of a headhunter's house of the Chang Naga tribe, India, including human skulls. Photograph.
  • Assam: a Konyak Naga boy with a head-hunter's tattoo. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf.
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with a necklace indicating that he has cut off a man's head. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, ca. 1937.
  • Assam: a Chang Naga man with a head-hunter's tattoo. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf.
  • Kalyo Kengyu, northern India: human heads hung up as trophies in a Naga village. Photograph.
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with plugs distorting his ears and a necklace indicating the number of heads he has cut off. Photograph.
  • A young man of the Konyak Naga tribe, India, holding a human head. Photograph.