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Their pictures and artefacts soon found their way onto the tables of parlours and into Europe&#8217;s museums. \n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>The spectacular material culture with its individualistic aesthetics, along with the fascination of headhunting, soon led to the Naga being stylised as the epitome of &#8216;noble savages&#8217;. The pictorial documentation of the tribe reached its peak in the 1930s, following the research expeditions by the Austrian ethnologist Christoph von F&uuml;rer-Haimendorf and his German colleague Hans-Eberhard Kauffmann. \n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>The photographic heritage of Kauffmann, believed to be lost and then rediscovered by the author, is the focus of this publication. It attempts, by means of a detailed pictorial ethnography, to reconstruct the aesthetic and cultural reality of the Nagas in the 1930s, through the ethnographer&#8217;s lens. 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