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Phejin Konyak: “The Last Tattooed Headhunters”Saturday, 30 May 2026 – Yangon
Phejin Konyak – author researcher and keeper of her own people’s stories – brings a rare perspective on one of the most visually striking and culturally rich traditions of the Indo-Myanmar borderlands. In her acclaimed book The Konyaks: Last of the Tattooed Headhunters, Phejin combines extensive fieldwork with evocative portraiture to preserve a tattooing heritage that once marked rites of passage, status and belonging among the Konyak Nagas.
Her book brings together the most extensive research and documentation ever conducted on Konyak tattoo art. It preserves this unique and fast-disappearing cultural practice by recording tattoo motifs, their meanings, and the oral traditions that accompany them: folktales, songs and poems. The book won the Silver Award at the London Book Fair in 2018 and was named Illustrated Book of the Year in India in 2019.
In this Speaker Series event in Yangon, Phejin will reflect on the intimate links between art, ritual and identity, and on the urgency of documenting heritage before it slips into collective memory.
Date: Saturday, 30 May 2026
Time: 10:00 – 12:00
Venue: Newsroom of Yangon Excelsior Hotel
Price: MMK 170,000 per person
Coffee & tea included
This event is now open for booking and spots are limited. Please email amy(at)sampantravel.com to confirm your place.
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Yangon Excelsior, ဗိုလ်ဆွန်ပက် လမ်း 32, ရန်ကုန်, မြန်မာ, Yangon, Burma
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