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naga millsphot P47840.jpg View of village street showing alignment of houses to either side and groups of menhirs, which have been set up in the course of Feasts of Merit (some fallen) down the centre...
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naga millsphot P47841.jpg Two men: one wears head-taker's cowrie shell gauntlets, as well as usual ivory arm rings and necklace of white porcelain and cornelian beads. Lhota, Akuk and Niroyo villages....
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naga millsphot P47842.jpg Man in full dress, wearing curved tail of human hair (tsongotschap) and carrying ceremonial dao and spear. Lhota, Akuk village. photographs Lhota Akuk Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 d...
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naga millsphot P47843.jpg Man in dance dress, wearing plaited cane leggings and carrying ceremonial spear tufted with goat's hair. Lhota, Lungsa village. photographs Lhota Lungsa Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945...
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naga millsphot P47844.jpg Man wearing dance dress which includes "tiger's tail" (tsichap) made from human hair. Lhota, Lungsa village. photographs Lhota Lungsa Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation base...
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naga millsphot P47845.jpg Luck stones (oha) which stand under the head-tree (mingetung) and on ceremonial occasions have a ritual importance. Lhota, Lungsa village. photographs Lhota Lungsa Mills/ J.P...
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naga millsphot P47846.jpg Pot making: woman building wall of pot upon separately modelled base: the pot is moulded with the left hand, and beaten into shape with a wooden baton held in the right. Lhot...
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naga millsphot P47847.jpg Village priest (puthi) wearing dress and head-dress ornamented with wooden horns: he wears a cowrie embroidered apron. Lhota, Lakhuti village. photographs Lhota Lakhuti Mills...
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naga millsphot P47848.jpg Village priest (puthi) and his assistant (yenga) who carries the priest's ceremonial spear and the conical baskets used for the collection of rice-contributions for the annua...
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naga millsphot P47849.jpg Man, holding obsolete type of dao (yanthang), stands beside menhir which has been set up after the performance of the fourth of the social gennas (tsirosoala). Lhota, Akuk vi...
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naga millsphot P47850.jpg Man wearing the stone-dragger's cloth to which he is entitled after the performance of the fourth social genna (tsirotsoala): this cloth is called lungpensu or eshamsu and is...
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naga millsphot P47851.jpg Man's grave on which stands a cross bar, erected at the time of the funeral rites; this bar is hung with baskets containing food offerings for the deceased. Lhota, Pangti vil...
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naga millsphot P47852.jpg Man's grave surmounted by elaborate structure (nritang-peng), resembling a men's house (morung). On this structure have been hung the spear and shield of the deceased and the...
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naga millsphot P47853.jpg Girl (portrait); she wears necklets and necklaces of coloured china beads, and armlets and ear-ornaments made of bell-metal. Lhota, Wokha village. photographs Lhota Wokha Mil...
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naga millsphot P47854.jpg Watch-house (zengki) built on piles in the middle of the growing crops, so that watch may be kept against birds and animals. Lhota, Lungsa village. photographs Lhota Lungsa M...
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naga millsphot P47855.jpg Log drum with one end carved in the form of a buffalo's head on whose tongue a human face has been carved; this drum was photographed standing in the open while the drum-hous...
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naga millsphot P47857.jpg Women and children taking part in the ceremonial tug-of-war during the annual ceremony after sowing (Moatsu). Ao, Ungma village. photographs Ao Ungma Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 do...
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naga millsphot P47858.jpg A row of corpse-platforms standing in a khel cemetery: the rows of corpse platforms are generally erected on either side of a path near the village. Ao, Chungtia village. pho...
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naga millsphot P47859.jpg A corpse-platform built on piles on which is hung gourds that tally the number of heads taken by the deceased during his lifetime. Ao, Waromung village. photographs Ao Waromu...
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naga millsphot P47860.jpg Man in full dress, wearing a bear-skin cap decorated with hornbill feathers, huge cotton ear-pad ornaments, boar's tusk neck ornament, ivory armlets, cowrie gauntlets, a deco...
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naga millsphot P47861.jpg Log-drum standing in drum-house; the end of the drum is carved to represent a buffalo's head with back-lying horns. Ao, Waromung village. photographs Ao Waromung Mills/ J.P. ...
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naga millsphot P47862.jpg Men's house (morung) built with open front and posts elaborately carved with representations of men, tigers, and hornbills; the protruding ridge-pole and the house eaves are ...
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naga millsphot P47863.jpg Men's house (morung) built with closed front and eaves which reach to the ground; entrance is effected by means of small doors back and front. In front of the men's house is ...
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naga millsphot P47864.jpg [two children] photographs Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text within square brackets...
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naga millsphot P47865.jpg Girl, with hair knotted at back, and brass spiral head ornament; wears red chillie pods as ear ornaments. Ao (Mongsen), Chungtia village. photographs Ao <Mongsen Chungtia Mil...
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naga millsphot P47866.jpg View of Longsa village, showing outlay of houses grouped in wards (khel) on either side of wide street. Ao, Longsa village. photographs Ao Longsa Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 docume...
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naga millsphot P47867.jpg View of Khari village, showing outlay of houses on hill-slope and distinct grouping into wards (khel). Ao, Khari village. photographs Ao Khari Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documenta...
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naga millsphot P47868.jpg Man carrying spear. Ao, Longpha village. photographs Ao Longpha Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in w...
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naga millsphot P47869.jpg Man wearing the necklet of boar's tusks permitted of a warrior, necklaces of conch shell beads and a baldric fringed with hair. Ao, Akoia village. photographs Ao Akhoia (Akoi...
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naga millsphot P47870.jpg Old man wearing shallow crowned hat made by coiled process. Ao, Lungkam village. photographs Ao Lungkam Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Fu...
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naga millsphot P47871.jpg Man wearing a conical hat of plaited cane and orchid stalk which is decorated with boar's tusks and ground mithan horns: this type of hat is made by Kalyo-Kengyu who trade it...
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naga millsphot P47872.jpg [man holding a spear, wearing cowrie-shell apron, bear-skill 'wig', goat-hair fringed baldric and cotton ear decorations] photographs Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation base...
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naga millsphot P47873.jpg Boy wearing necklace of conch-shell beads and brass necklets. Ao, Ungma village, Pongem phratry. photographs Ao Ungma Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue b...
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naga millsphot P47874.jpg [young woman with long hair knotted at the back and bound up, wearing a band across her head, supporting rings and tassels above the ear] photographs Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 do...
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naga millsphot P47875.jpg View over ranges to east from Mokongtsu village. Ao. photographs Ao Mokongtsu Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless unca...
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naga millsphot P47876.jpg View from Mongsenyemti village. Ao. photographs Ao Mongsenyimti (Mongsenyemti) Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless unc...
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naga millsphot P47877.jpg An avenue of oak trees near Ungma village. Ao. photographs Ao Ungma Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, ...
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naga millsphot P47878.jpg Pool in the forest near Mbongchokut village. Ao. photographs Ao Mubongchukit (Mbongchokut) Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendor...
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naga millsphot P47879.jpg Men in full dress dancing at the annual ceremony after sowing (Moatsu). Ao, Ungma village. photographs Ao Ungma Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Bett...
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naga millsphot P47880.jpg Boys dancing at the annual ceremony after sowing (Moatsu). Ao, Ungma village. photographs Ao Ungma Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-H...
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naga millsphot P47881.jpg Girl, wearing brass ring hair-ornament (yongmen) supporting by band over head and necklaces of trumpet-shaped lead alloy bead-spikes (mechongchangshi) and ear plugs. Ao, Chuc...
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naga millsphot P47882.jpg [house with front post carved in relief] photographs Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case t...
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naga millsphot P47883.jpg Married couple: woman wearing large bead necklace of Angami design (turho), white metal armlets (ghi), white metal bracelets (ping) and a cotton woven cloth (nya); man wearin...
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naga millsphot P47884.jpg Front view of morung (awikhu), showing open porch with centre post carved with highly conventionalised hornbills facing each other, crossed house horns and tassels of bamboo ...
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naga millsphot P47885.jpg Boy wearing only bead necklaces. Eastern Rengma, Meluri village. photographs Rengma <Eastern Meluri Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-...
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naga millsphot P47886.jpg Stone platform built over clan grave (sikar tso) situated in village street. Western Rengma (Southern section), Tseminyu village. photographs Rengma <Western Tseminyu Mills/ ...
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naga millsphot P47887.jpg Woman wearing strings of dark blue beads (atsupri) round the waist and narrow skirt (konyu meni). Eastern Rengma, Meluri village. photographs Rengma <Eastern Meluri Mills/ J....
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naga millsphot P47888.jpg Young married couple, girl wearing narrow skirt (konyu meni) and bead necklaces, boy wearing bead necklaces and ear ornaments. Eastern Rengma, Meluri village. photographs Ren...
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naga millsphot P47889.jpg Two men in full dress wearing the bear's-hair wig (tegwemvu) of men who have done the head-taking genna, with the three hornbill feathers (gu nyonh) of the warrior, red tasse...
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naga millsphot P47890.jpg Man in (now obsolete) armour, consisting of raw hide body and belt (apfu khekong), and raw hide calf leggings (amezong khekong) and cane helmet (ayi whang): he carries a long...
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naga millsphot P47891.jpg View of Meluri village. Eastern Rengma. photographs Rengma <Eastern Meluri Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatal...
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naga millsphot P47892.jpg Old woman wearing ragged loin-cloth and a single string of beads. Western Rengma (Southern section), Tseminyu village. photographs Rengma <Western Tseminyu Mills/ J.P. 1918-1...
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naga millsphot P47893.jpg Men's house (dekachang) built with plank walls and grass thatched roof. Wooden central post carved with stylised representations of human heads, women's breasts and mithan ta...
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naga millsphot P47894.jpg Morung (bachelor's dormitory) built of bamboo and thatched and showing low round roof carried forward over the front porch as in the houses of rich men. Rengma, Lazemi villag...
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naga millsphot P47895.jpg Man in warrior's dress wearing cane helmet decorated with horns carved from hornbill beak and red goat's hair and black human hair tassels, fringed baldric, and apron embroid...
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naga millsphot P47896.jpg Two men and a boy wearing dance dress: the men wear plaited-cane leggings and white-striped cloth aprons, bead necklaces and necklets and cane caps decorated with feathers; t...
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naga millsphot P47897.jpg Two boys carrying the catch of a recent fishing expedition. Sema and Sangtam. photographs Sema Sangtam Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Fur...
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naga millsphot P47898.jpg Forked post, painted and carved with mithan head, set up during a feast of merit to commemorate a buffalo sacrifice. Eastern Rengma, Meluri village. photographs Rengma <Easte...
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naga millsphot P47899.jpg Morung showing the low round roof carried forward, under the eaves are decorated with bunches of thin bamboo slat and pieces of bamboo spathe cut into a swallow tail form: th...
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naga millsphot P47900.jpg [Nagas photographed in Mills' garden at Mokokchung] photographs Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in w...
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naga millsphot P47902.jpg Man in ceremonial dress, wearing a cap of bear's skin (ayabo) decorated with hornbill feathers, apron embroidered with cowrie shells (amini-kedah), metal bracelets, ivory arm...
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naga millsphot P47903.jpg Man wearing belt ornamented with cowrie shells (akiasa-kikheki), long necklaces of white conch shell (asho-ghila), cowrie-shell-decorated apron (lapuchoh) and the cowrie shel...
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naga millsphot P47904.jpg Men returning from a successful raid carrying the captured head-trophy round the village. Sema, Sakhalu village. photographs Sema Sakhalu Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation ...
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naga millsphot P47905.jpg Dwelling house built with plaited bamboo walls and grass thatched roof. The house-gable is decorated with the insignia gained by donors of a feast of merit - house-horns, bam...
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naga millsphot P47906.jpg Ritual poles (aghuza) set up outside dwelling house which signifies that the owner has held the second in the Feasts of Merit known as Apisa. The ritual poles are supported b...
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naga millsphot P47907.jpg Girls wearing bead necklaces, cowrie shell and cane girdles, bell metal armlets, red goat's hair pendants and cotton skirts. They both wear the head-fillets which denote the ...
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naga millsphot P47909.jpg Girl wearing bead necklaces, bell-metal armlets, cowrie shell girdle and cotton skirt. She wears a head-fillet which signifies that she is betrothed. photographs Sema Mills/ ...
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naga millsphot P47910.jpg Two boys (sons of chief) wearing bead necklaces. The boy on the left wears a double string of precious, ancient beads (deo moni). Sema, Shehepur village. photographs Sema She...
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naga millsphot P47911.jpg Men in war dress returning from a successful raid: before entering their home-village they turn to face the enemy-village and, leaning on their spears, chant "O Yemusale, Yem...
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naga millsphot P47912.jpg [man with spear, gaiters, cowrie-shell wristlets, and wide cowrie-shell belt] photographs Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf...
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naga millsphot P47913.jpg Man (headman) in full ceremonial dress; he wears bear-skin cap (avabo), which is decorated with hornbill feathers, fringed baldric (amlakha), square apron (amini-kedah) and p...
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naga millsphot P47914.jpg Woman spinning cotton on stone-weighted spindle. She wears necklaces and ornaments and conch-shell and cornelian beads, metal armlets and a hand-woven, cotton cloth skirt. Se...
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naga millsphot P47915.jpg Woman seeding cotton. Sema. photographs Sema Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text with...
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naga millsphot P47917.jpg [ Mikir woman and child ] photographs Mikir Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text withi...
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naga millsphot P47918.jpg Man and daughter in ceremonial dress standing in front of posts put up in the course of feasts of merit. The man wears the square apron covered with cowries (amini-kedah), el...
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naga millsphot P47919.jpg Woman (wife of chief) carrying baby in sling on her back. She wears cowrie-shell, conch-shell and cornelian neck ornaments, bell-metal armlets, yellow bead girdle and a cotto...
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naga millsphot P47920.jpg [View of houses. Angami.] photographs Angami Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text with...
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naga millsphot P47921.jpg View of Khonoma village, showing circular stone sitting-platform (tehuba) situated in front of house of the descendant of the village founder (kemovo): behind the houses are ...
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naga millsphot P47922.jpg Woman's grave situated outside a dwelling house and fenced in with bamboo; after burial the basket and spinning and weaving utensils of the deceased are placed on the grave t...
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naga millsphot P47923.jpg A group of boys singing songs. Eastern Angami, Khezambi village. photographs Angami <Eastern Khezambi Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Fure...
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naga millsphot P47924.jpg House whose gable is decorated with wooden house-horns (kika) denoting that the owner has performed the Lishe ceremony in the Feast of Merit series. The house posts are carve...
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naga millsphot P47925.jpg Young man in ceremonial dress, singing and pounding rice in ceremonial manner during the performance of a genna. Western Angami, Kohima village. photographs Angami <Western K...
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naga millsphot P47926.jpg Man's grave fenced in with bamboo on which an almost life-size wooden effigy has been set up. Western Angami, Chichama village. photographs Angami <Western Chechama (Chichama...
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naga millsphot P47927.jpg Distant view of Khonoma village. Western Angami. photographs Angami <Western Khonoma Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unle...
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naga millsphot P47928.jpg Young girls wearing large brass ear-rings in the upper ear-lobes, the pair being joined by a string cross the top of the heads and another across the back of the neck: the tw...
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naga millsphot P47929.jpg Man's grave built up with stone on which have been set up the deceased's shield, spear, ornaments and eating and drinking utensils, together with the skull of sacrificial cat...
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naga millsphot P47930.jpg Young girl with shaved head which denotes her unmarried status: she wears a white cloth with black marginal stripes, a bugle shaped bracelet above the elbow, brass wristlets,...
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naga millsphot P47931.jpg Young married couple, the bride demonstrating her newly acquired status as a married woman by the length of her hair, which is just beginning to grow. Eastern Angami, Chozuba...
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naga millsphot P47932.jpg Two young men wearing necklaces of conch-shell and cornelian beads and brass armlets: the man on the right wears the black cloth sewn with three rows of cowries proper to a w...
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naga millsphot P47933.jpg A ceremonial procession of clan-members in full dress visiting a neighbouring clan. Western Angami, Kohima village. photographs Angami <Western Kohima Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 d...
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naga millsphot P47934.jpg Young man in full ceremonial dress wearing wheel-head-dress of hornbill feathers, which are real as he is a head-taker; he wears ear-ornaments of the emerald beetle's wing an...
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naga millsphot P47935.jpg Young men assembled on a sitting-platform. Eastern Angami, Chozubami village. photographs Angami <Eastern Chezumi (Chozubami) Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on cat...
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naga millsphot P47936.jpg Woman wearing her hair long, which denotes her status as a married woman, large brass ear-rings in the upper ear-lobe suspended by a band over the head and another across the...
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naga millsphot P47937.jpg Young men in dance-dress wearing wheel-head-dress of hornbill feathers, necklaces of conch-shell and cornelian, armlets of ivory and cane-plaited leggings below the knees: th...
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naga millsphot P47938.jpg Two men, wearing black kilts which are decorated with three lines of cowries, white belts, ivory armlets and cornelian and conch-shell necklaces: the man on the right wears a...
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naga millsphot P47939.jpg Young men in ceremonial dress: the man in the centre wears a cotton-rope head-dress set with a wheel of revolving hornbill feathers, necklaces of cornelian and conch-shell be...
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naga millsphot P47940.jpg Young woman with the growing hair which marks her status as a newly married woman. Western Angami, Khonoma village. photographs Angami <Western Khonoma Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 ...
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naga millsphot P47941.jpg View of Khonoma village: in the background is a stone-built clan "fort" (dahu) - "a more or less rectangular pyramidal building which the clan can use a coign of vantage in a...
Last modification: on 02 Nov 2011 at 16:07:44 - black and white photographs taken by J.P. Mills
naga millsphot P47942.jpg Young woman with the long hair which denotes the status of a married woman. Western Angami. photographs Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Fu...
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naga millsphot P47943.jpg [Skulls on poles. Phorr] photographs Sangtam Purr (Phorr) Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which c...
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