The use of wood coffins in Northeast India is a tradition that is confined to some Naga communities of Kiphire and Phek Districts of Nagaland in Northeast India. Little is known of these wooden containers that served as funerary receptacles for the dead. They appear to be part of the broader mortuary practice of jar burial largely associated with Mimi and Laruri Naga villages adjoining the Myanmar border. Local narratives suggest that coffin burial was practiced until the arrival of Christianity to the region and was abandoned along with other ‘old’ indigenous faiths and traditions. This paper discusses the surviving traces of wood coffins reported from caves and rockshelters in the Mimi and Laruri regions of Nagaland that were identified and recorded during recent archaeological investigations.