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Handicraft
Wood carving
Nagaland
A great deal of wood carving of Nagas is associated with religious beliefs and practices. Some of the excellent wood carving in the territory is to be found among the Wanchoo, Konyak and Phom tribes living close to the Burma border.
These wood carving finds expression mainly under three categories:
• head hunting
• decorating the morungs
• funerary images erected for warriors or other important persons
The carvings are mainly of Mithun heads, carved tigers and elephants, warriors with guns, monkey, dogs and dancing couples.