Carl Nehore, Aoleang Headhunter (BLACK & WHITE 2025)

The Aoleang festival is the annual spring festival of the Konyak tribe of Nagaland, India. It is a time to celebrate the end of the sowing period and involves a multitude of cultural practices. This series captured during the festival depicts a Konyak elder, reenacting the days of the tribes headhunter period - dressed in his traditional attire, in a trance-like state dancing and leading his men, resting on his old musket and machete, and eventually resting after the event.

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