# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Last Tattooed Headhunters - Sampan's Speaker Series
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 30 May, 2026 at 10:00 am – Sat, 30 May, 2026 at 12:00 pm (+06:30)
- **Event Description**: 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.

For our Speaker Series events in Yangon, we offer a certain number of free tickets to Myanmar students and youth. Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network. If you think that you or someone you know is eligible, let us know so we can reserve a spot for one of Sampan's Speaker Series in Yangon.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/yangon/the-last-tattooed-headhunters-sampans-speaker-series/200030086232551
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Yangon
- **state**: YA
- **country**: Burma
- **location**: Yangon Excelsior
- **lat**: 16.772437357583
- **long**: 96.157150268555
- **full address**: Yangon Excelsior, ဗိုလ်ဆွန်ပက် လမ်း 32, ရန်ကုန်, မြန်မာ, Yangon, Burma

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is The Last Tattooed Headhunters - Sampan's Speaker Series being held?
  - **A:** The Last Tattooed Headhunters - Sampan's Speaker Series takes place on Sat, 30 May, 2026 at 10:00 am to Sat, 30 May, 2026 at 12:00 pm at Yangon Excelsior, ဗိုလ်ဆွန်ပက် လမ်း 32, ရန်ကုန်, မြန်မာ, Yangon, Burma.
- **Q**: Who is organizing The Last Tattooed Headhunters - Sampan's Speaker Series?
  - **A:** The Last Tattooed Headhunters - Sampan's Speaker Series is organized by Sampan Travel.

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