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In remote northwest Myanmar, the traditional home to the headhunting Naga tribes, skulls are harder and harder to find.
About Elliott D. Woods
Elliott D. Woods is a contributing editor to VQR. His VQR-sponsored website Assignment Afghanistan received the 2011 Digital National Magazine Award for Multimedia Package. His essay, “Digging Out,” from the Fall 2010 issue, was nominated for a 2011 National Magazine Award in Reporting and received the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction. His essay, “Hope’s Coffin,” from the Summer 2009 issue, received a citation for the Madeline Dane Ross Award from the Overseas Press Club. His other essays and photographs have a peared in or are forthcoming in GQ, Granta, Mother Jones, and Time.
Also By This Author
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- All That Remains
- Garbage City
- Digging Out
- Easter in Gaza
- The Path to Yaghestan
- Hope’s Coffin
- A Few Unforeseen Things
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