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naga millsphot P48049.jpg Chief (Ang) of Mon, wearing cane hat tufted with dyed goat's hair and decorated with hornbill feathers and wild boar's tusks. His ear-ornaments are many stranded bead tassels...
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naga millsphot P48050.jpg Corpse platform, showing deceased's ornaments, formalised wooden copies of long daos. Ao, Changki village. photographs Ao Changki Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on...
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naga millsphot P48051.jpg Offerings to cure sickness caused by wild boar. Ao, Chungtia village. photographs Ao Chungtia Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimen...
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naga millsphot P48052.jpg Formal dance by men in honour of Governor of Assam. Ao, Ungma village. photographs Ao Ungma Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendo...
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naga millsphot P48054.jpg Formal dance by men in honour of Governor of Assam. Ao, Ungma village. photographs Ao Ungma Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendo...
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naga millsphot P48055.jpg Front of house carved with tiger and hornbill figures indicating that owner has given second feast of merit. Ao, Ungma village. photographs Ao Ungma Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 doc...
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naga millsphot P48056.jpg Mithan tied up for sacrifice at feast of merit; short wooden posts commemorating 2nd feast of merit (at edge). Ao, Ungma village. photographs Ao Ungma Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 d...
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naga millsphot P48057.jpg Carved and painted village gate. Ao, Merangkong village. photographs Ao Merangkong Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless...
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naga millsphot P48058.jpg Posts commemorating 3rd in the series of mithan sacrifice. Ao, Chantongia village. photographs Ao Chantongia Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty v...
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naga millsphot P48059.jpg Log-drum. Ao, Longpa village. photographs Ao Longpha (Longpa) Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in whi...
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naga millsphot P48060.jpg House of man who has given full series of feasts of merit. Three types of post for 1st, 2nd and 3rd mithan sacrifice. Ao, Sangratsu village. photographs Ao Sangratsu Mills/ J...
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naga millsphot P48061.jpg Posts commemorating 2nd and 3rd in the series of mithan sacrifices. Ao, Longsa village. photographs Ao Longsa Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty ...
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naga millsphot P48062.jpg Posts commemorating 2nd and 3rd in the series of mithan sacrifices. Ao, Sangratsu village photographs Ao Sangratsu Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by B...
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naga millsphot P48063.jpg Woman weaving. Ao, Mongsenyimti village. photographs Ao Mongsenyimti Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued,...
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naga millsphot P48064.jpg Imitation pig offered to evil spirits. Ao, Ungma village. photographs Ao Ungma Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless unc...
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naga millsphot P48065.jpg Entrance to the village is through a narrow gateway in the rubble wall which surrounds the houses. It is lines with upright stones, two of which are decorated with carvings. ...
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naga millsphot P48066.jpg Bamboo palisade set up to enclose the site of the "fourth" ritual sowing. The four ritual sowings are done during the first sowing ceremony, which is held at the beginning of...
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naga millsphot P48067.jpg Young men and unmarried girls dance on a ceremonial occasion. To the right are the drummers playing cylindrical, double-membrance drums. To the left a line of young men chant...
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naga millsphot P48068.jpg Woman carrying child. She wears hand-woven, cotton-cloth skirt, shoulder shawl and turban, and necklace of conch-shell and cornelian beads. Zemi, Baladhan village. photograph...
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naga millsphot P48070.jpg Natural stone of curious shape which is carved to represent the figure of a man. This stone is set up on three flat stones and stands in association with alignments of small,...
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naga millsphot P48073.jpg Alignments of small upright stones and horizontally-placed stone slabs. These are part of the complex which includes a natural stone carved to represent a figure. Zemi, Peisa...
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naga millsphot P48074.jpg Bamboo fence surrounding the village, entrance to which is effected through a narrow opening in a screen of scrub and bush. Zemi, Peisa village. photographs Zemi Paisa (Peisa...
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naga millsphot P48075.jpg Girl performing the ritual act of taking an oath on an egg. She wears a hand-woven, cotton cloth and her hair is cut in the "bobbed" style, which indicates her unmarried stat...
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naga millsphot P48076.jpg Firewood stacked by members of the morung for use on occasions of morung importance. Zemi, Hokai village. photographs Zemi Hokai Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on ...
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naga millsphot P48077.jpg Ritual effigy (mpe) set up during the Winter Festival, which takes place at the end of the agricultural year. During the course of the rites this effigy, which is carved to r...
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naga millsphot P48078.jpg Spindles, hung up on a four-armed pole in front of the morung represent deceased women associated with morung-members. (Wooden models of hornbill feathers are used to represe...
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naga millsphot P48079.jpg Man carrying short-hafted spear and war-shield made of plaited bamboo. Zemi, Hajaichak village. photographs Zemi Hajaichak Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalo...
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naga millsphot P48080.jpg Woman winding cotton thread. She uses a four peg rack to set up the warp for an "Indonesian" type loom. Zemi, Hangrum village. photographs Zemi Hangrum Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 ...
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naga millsphot P48081.jpg Small upright stones set up during the funerary rites to commemorate the sexual conquests made by deceased during his life-time. Zemi, Hangrum village. photographs Zemi Hangr...
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naga millsphot P48082.jpg Two stone menhirs set up outside the dwelling-house to commemorate the performance of Feasts of Merit given by the house-owner. Zemi, Nenglo village. photographs Zemi Nenglo ...
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naga millsphot P48083.jpg Woman weaving cotton cloth on an Indonesian-type look. Zemi, Nenglo village. photographs Zemi Nenglo Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer...
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naga millsphot P48084.jpg Ritual earth mound set up by rich man to commemorate a bumper harvest. The mound represents grain heaped after harvest. The building of such a mound is believed to further th...
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naga millsphot P48085.jpg Morung, built with carved, wooden front and high-gabled, thatched roof. In front of the morung stands a bamboo platform, used as a sitting-place by members of the men's house...
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naga millsphot P48086.jpg Ponds which have been dug as part of the ritual (matuira) aimed at promoting the fertility of the crops. This ritual may only be performed by those men's houses whose members...
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naga millsphot P48087.jpg Cane and bamboo cantilever bridge built across a stream. This type of bridge is known locally as a "rainbow" bridge. Zemi, Laisong village. photographs Zemi Laisong Mills/ J....
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naga millsphot P48088.jpg Wooden trough used for storing water. The trough is made from a hollowed-out tree-trunk and the ends are carved with stylized representations of female breasts. The water is ...
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naga millsphot P48089.jpg Entrance to interior of men's house, through narrow doorway cut in plaited-bamboo wall; door-frame and supporting slats are carved with diagonal lines and geometric patterns ...
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naga millsphot P48090.jpg Entrance to interior of men's house, through narrow doorway cut in plaited-bamboo wall; door-frame and supporting slats are carved with figures of deer, elephants, horses, pe...
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naga millsphot P48091.jpg Young man carrying short-hafted, long, iron-headed spear. He wears a hand-woven loin cloth, metal ear-rings and necklaces made of porcelain beads, metal rings and cowrie shel...
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naga millsphot P48092.jpg Interior of morung. The walls are made of plaited bamboo and the wooden cross-beams bear carvings of human figures, female breasts and penis. Zemi, Hojai village. photographs...
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naga millsphot P48093.jpg Young man, wearing neck ornaments of cowrie shell and a flower in his ear-lobe. His hair is cut in the "long-bob" style which indicates his unmarried status. Zemi, Waipe vill...
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naga millsphot P48094.jpg Menhir, set in memory of deceased, associated with two rows of smaller stones which commemorate the love affairs in which the deceased engaged during his lifetime. Zemi, Waip...
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naga millsphot P48095.jpg Women fetching water from a tank situated in the centre of the village. The water is conveyed from the stream by means of a bamboo conduit to a hollowed-out tree trunk whence...
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naga millsphot P48096.jpg Morung built with plaited-bamboo walls and grass-thatched roof. The wooden front posts are carved with stylized motifs : human heads, mithan heads and female breasts. The gab...
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naga millsphot P48097.jpg Man wearing small apron on G-string, hand-woven, cotton cloth crossed on chest, bead necklaces and cap. His neck ornament is decorated with tiger's teeth which he is entitled...
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naga millsphot P48098.jpg Morung with carved post and "house horns'. Chiru. photographs Chiru Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, ...
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naga millsphot P48099.jpg Circular sitting stone and monoliths. Chiru. photographs Chiru Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in wh...
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naga millsphot P48100.jpg Men standing in front of morung; they wear fillets are characteristic of the tribe. Chiru. photographs Chiru Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty v...
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naga millsphot P48101.jpg Grave. Chiru. photographs Chiru Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text within square bra...
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naga millsphot P48102.jpg Girls and boys in festive dress dance on a ceremonial occasion. Kabui, Gobindapur village. photographs Kabui Gobindapur Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue...
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naga millsphot P48103.jpg Group of male and female dancers in festive dress. Man wears horned head-dress, beaded ear-rings and necklaces, striped, cotton loin cloth and ivory armlets decorated with cl...
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naga millsphot P48104.jpg Posts commemorating 1st and end in the series of mithan sacrifice. The carvings on the round post represent hornbill heads. Ao, Lungkam village. photographs Ao Lungkam Mills/...
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naga millsphot P48105.jpg Front of dwelling house showing posts and beams carved with stylised motifs: male figures, human heads and mithan heads. Zemi. photographs Zemi Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 document...
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naga millsphot P48106.jpg Front of dwelling house showing posts and cross-beams carved with representations of a warrior in full dress, mithan head, female breasts and human heads; some of the carving...
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naga millsphot P48107.jpg Entrance gate to the village. The gate is hung in a wooden frame set in the stone wall and is carved from a single block of wood. It is decorated with painted carvings repres...
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naga millsphot P48108.jpg Front of dwelling house showing posts and cross-beams decorated with painted carvings which represent human figures, mithan horns, human heads and female breasts. Zemi, Pulom...
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naga millsphot P48109.jpg Stockade, built of wood and bamboo, set up in defence of the village during the Gaidiliu disturbance in 1932. The raised step inside the stockade was for the use of owners of...
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naga millsphot P48111.jpg Offerings to the recently deceased set up on bamboo scaffolds. Chang, Yongyimti village. photographs Chang Yongyimti Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by...
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naga millsphot P48112.jpg Wooden post of morung decorated with elephant tusk motif. (There have been no elephants in the area for an unknown period of time and the animal is only known by tradition.) ...
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naga millsphot P48113.jpg naga millsphot P48114.jpg Monolithic pillar and stone mound standing in euphorbia grove. Southern Sangtam, Photsimi village. photographs Sangtam <Southern Purr (Photsimi) Mil...
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naga millsphot P48115.jpg Forked post set up to commemorate the performance of Feasts of Merit. It is carved from a single block of wood and is decorated with a representation of a phallus. Southern S...
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naga millsphot P48116.jpg Chief of Chingmei dances at the ceremonies that follow the conclusion of a successful raid. He wears full ceremonial dress and, as he dances, he strikes his shield with his d...
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naga millsphot P48117.jpg naga millsphot P48118.jpg Group of menhirs associated with horizontal stones standing in front of ang's house. Konyak, Sangnyu village. Stool for exclusive use of ang, carved...
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naga millsphot P48119.jpg Centre post of morung, carved with "tooth" motif. Konyak, Sangnyu village photographs Konyak Sangnyu Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer...
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naga millsphot P48120.jpg Girls singing at festival: carved planks in the background. Eastern Angami, Kezabami village. photographs Angami <Eastern Chizami (Kezabami) Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentati...
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naga millsphot P48124.jpg Young men in full dress engaged in ceremonial rice pounding. Western Angami, Kohima village. photographs Angami <Western Kohima Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on c...
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naga millsphot P48125.jpg Man carrying obsolete type axe-shaped dao. He wears cropped hair, waist-string, small dark-blue cloth apron, decorated with cowrie shells and brass circular ornaments, neckla...
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naga millsphot P48126.jpg Carved planks on house front: shows method of tying planks together with cane thongs. Eastern Angami, Kekrima village. photographs Angami <Eastern Kekrima Mills/ J.P. 1918-19...
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naga millsphot P48127.jpg Man in cloth of Manipur origin, worn by those who have given full series of feasts of merit. Eastern Angami, Khezabami village. photographs Angami <Eastern Chizami (Khezabami...
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naga millsphot P48128.jpg House of man who has given full series of Feasts of Merit, with house horns and elaborately carved front. Eastern Angami, Khezabami village. photographs Angami <Eastern Chiza...
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naga millsphot P48129.jpg Grave on which have been set up figures commemorating the love affairs of the deceased. Eastern Angami, Jessami village. photographs Angami <Eastern Jessami Mills/ J.P. 1918-...
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naga millsphot P48130.jpg Girl with curly hair. Western Angami, Kabvuma village. photographs Angami <Western Khabvuma (Kabvuma) Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Fure...
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naga millsphot P48131.jpg Street in Cheswezumi village, with houses decorated with house horns. Eastern Angami, Cheswezumi village. photographs Angami <Eastern Cheswezumi Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documen...
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naga millsphot P48132.jpg Two women outside dwelling house engaged in catching lice. The house is built with bamboo walls and thatched roof. Sema, Baimho village. photographs Sema Baimho Mills/ J.P. 1...
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naga millsphot P48133.jpg Gourds which represent heads taken in war hung up on bamboo poles. These are erected on a ceremonial site on the outskirts of the village. Sema, Sakhalu village. photographs ...
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naga millsphot P48134.jpg Men setting up the bamboo poles on which to hang the gourd substitutes of heads captured in war. These bamboo poles are cut and planted so that they will not take root and ar...
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naga millsphot P48135.jpg Man shaving child's head with small iron knife. Sema, Kichilimi village. photographs Sema Kichilimi Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-...
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naga millsphot P48136.jpg Grave of a priest (puthi) on which a carved post has been set up. The carvings include conventionalised figures of hornbills, mithan heads, human breasts and sun and moon. Th...
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naga millsphot P48137.jpg naga millsphot P48138.jpg Grave of priest (puthi) on which has been set up a wooden post carved with dao tallies that indicate the number of raids in which deceased has taken...
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naga millsphot P48139.jpg The head and limbs of a tiger killed in hunting are hung up on a tree beside the village path; its mouth is stuffed with leaves so that it may not eat the inhabitants of the ...
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naga millsphot P48140.jpg Drum in shed. Ao, Waromung village. photographs Ao Waromung Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which...
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naga millsphot P48141.jpg [mithan skulls] photographs Konyak Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text within square ...
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naga millsphot P48142.jpg [mithan skulls hanging above relief carvings of mithan heads on house posts] photographs Konyak Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haim...
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naga millsphot P48143.jpg Corpse platform, with post which indicates that deceased has done mithan sacrifice and gourds that he has taken heads. Ao, Waromung village. photographs Ao Waromung Mills/ J....
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naga millsphot P48144.jpg Morung of Chang type, with carvings of tigers, snakes and mithan heads. Ao, Monsenyimti village. photographs Ao Chang Mongsenyimti Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based o...
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naga millsphot P48145.jpg [Konyak girls] photographs Konyak Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text within square b...
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naga millsphot P48146.jpg Monolithic stone standing in group of smaller stones standing in front of morung. Konyak, Yungya village. photographs Konyak Yungya Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based ...
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naga millsphot P48147.jpg Forked posts, set up to commemorate the performance of Feasts of Merit, standing in front of donor's dwelling house. The house is built with plank walls and shingle-covered r...
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naga millsphot P48149.jpg Part of insignia of Ahom kings deposited with Wanching village, and still retained by them. It is of iron inlaid with brass and appears to be a ceremonial hoe. Konyak, Wanchi...
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naga millsphot P48150.jpg Small megalithic urn, one of a group of 400, measuring 1' 4" high, 1'2" in greatest diameter and 3' 10}" in greatest circumference. North Cachar Hills, Bolasan village. photo...
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naga millsphot P48151.jpg Twin tanks situated on a saddle between the field of monoliths and the main ridge: each tank is 40ft square and between them is an embankment 10ft high while a little way awa...
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naga millsphot P48152.jpg Large monolithic cylindrical shaped urn, about 7'long, being one of a group of similarly shaped stones found on a hill top. North Cachar Hills, Kobak village. photographs Kob...
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naga millsphot P48153.jpg [monoliths at Bolasan] photographs Bolasan Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text within...
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naga millsphot P48154.jpg Monolithic urn, of truncated cone shape, being one of a group of 50; small end of "female" urn showing opening and "suggestive" lines cut in the top. North Cachar Hills, Kart...
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naga millsphot P48155.jpg Giant monolithic urn, one of a group of 42 stones, arranged in parallel lines with one monolith at a distance from the rest: this urn as well as the others of the group appea...
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naga millsphot P48156.jpg Monolithic stone urn, pear-shaped and artificially dressed containing a cavity hollowed in the bulbous end: this monolith is one of a pair and is associated with a pair of st...
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naga millsphot P48157.jpg Group of "pear-shaped monolithic urns, being part of a field of approximately 400 arranged in long lines, the big stones of the alignment often apparently having clusters of ...
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naga millsphot P48158.jpg Shouldered stone celts found in association with monolithic stone urns near Kartong village, North Cachar Hills. photographs Kartong 1.5-2" Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentatio...
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naga millsphot P48159.jpg Celt of petrified wood found at Laskar village, North Cachar Hills. This celt is now in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. photographs Laskar Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation...
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naga archphot P48161.jpg naga archphot P48162.jpg gate at Meroma village dated 13/3/1943 photographs Angami Merema (Meroma) Archer/ W.G. 1946-1948 35mm negatives 1:30-1:31 private collection
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