Head hunting drama presented at the Hornbill Fest, in Nagaland

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A group of Nagaland men performs head hunting drama during hornbill festival in Nagaland. The men are carrying weapon like knife, shield and spear. They display of killing the man and cutting off their head. Headhunting is the practice of taking and preserving a person's head after killing the person. Headhunting was practised in historic times in parts of Oceania, South and Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa, and Mesoamerica, as well as among certain tribes of the Celts, the West Germanic tribes, and Scythians of ancient Europe. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality