Nagaland, India - December 2012
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At the Hornbill Festival we were not able to identify the different tribes by their dress.
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This old warrior displays remains of a facial tattoo reserved for successful headhunters. He also wears bronze skulls, one for each head he severed.
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Each year a different village Angh (headman) presides over the Hornbill Festival inaugural ceremony. In December 2012, K. Pheiwang of Tuimei, a Konyak tribal village, presided. Mr. Pheiwang still displays the facial tattoos that were only allowed to be acquired by those who had taken the heads of those they killed in battle.
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Inside a mockup of a traditional Nagland tribal home.
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At the Hornbill Festival, a replica of a headhunter's tattoo.
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After the Hornbill Festival. Lady weaving with a backstrap loom - Tuophema village.
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Ladies of the Ao tribe in a village near Mokokchung.
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At another Ao village near Mokokchung preparations were being made for a wedding. Visiting family and friends sat and talked while wedding preparations were underway.
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Among the wedding preparations was butchering a hog.
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Old warrior, from Longwa village, with the tattoo of one who has taken a head.
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Young ladies in Jorhat, Assam state, India. We passed through Jorhat enroute to a ferry that took us across the Brahmaputra River to Majuli Island.
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Ferry that crosses the Brahmaputra River to Majuli Island.
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A mask maker wearing one of his creations. The masks are used in Hindu religous ceremonies.
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Dish washer at a restaurant where we had lunch one day.
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A ferry crossing the Brahmaputra to mainland Assam - enroute to Guwahati.
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