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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...
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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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naga millsphot P47944.jpg A gang of boys dragging in a post for the rebuilding of the men's house. Southern Sangtam, Primi village. photographs Sangtam <Southern Primi Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentat...
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naga millsphot P47945.jpg Two girls, wearing hand-woven, cotton, cloth skirts, neck-ornaments of metal, conch-shell and china beads, and cowrie shell ear-ornaments. The girl on the right wears the hea...
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naga millsphot P47946.jpg [Imitation heads on bamboos. Phorr.] photographs Sangtam Purr (Phorr) Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued...
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naga millsphot P47947.jpg Inter-village path passing along pine-covered hill slope. Southern Sangtam, Potsimi village. photographs Sangtam <Southern Purr (Potsimi) Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation ...
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naga millsphot P47948.jpg Two young men out hunting, one carries a cross-bow, the other a spear. Kalyo-Kengyu, Laruri village. photographs Kalyo-Kengyu Laruri Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based...
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naga millsphot P47949.jpg [Man and two women. Konyak.] photographs Konyak Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text w...
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naga millsphot P47950.jpg Man wearing tiger-tooth neck ornament, which signifies that he is a head-taker. Southern Sangtam. photographs Sangtam <Southern Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on c...
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naga millsphot P47951.jpg Young man. photographs Sangtam <Southern Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text within s...
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naga millsphot P47952.jpg Offerings to the dead: at the time of harvest bamboo mugs of rice beer are hung up on poles outside the dwellings of all those who died in the previous year. Southern Sangtam...
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naga millsphot P47953.jpg Funerary monument set up outside dwelling house of deceased: offerings of food and rice beer are hung up on a scaffold erected over the grave. Beside the scaffold stands a ba...
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naga millsphot P47954.jpg [Imitation heads on bamboos. Phorr] photographs Sangtam Purr (Phorr) Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued,...
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naga millsphot P47955.jpg Woman drying rice which is spread out on a bamboo mat. Konyak, Lapa village. photographs Konyak Lapa Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer...
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naga millsphot P47956.jpg Expeditionary Column of 1923 passing over 'jhum', hill field, cleared for cultivation: the gulley in the centre of the field has not been cleared as it is too steep for culti...
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naga millsphot P47957.jpg Government built bamboo suspension bridge across the Dikhu River between the villages of Wakching and Tamlu. Konyak. photographs Dikhu R. Tamlu Wakching Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945...
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naga millsphot P47958.jpg View over the house-tops of Chinlong village, showing the house-posts of newly repaired houses protruding from the thatch. When house-posts decay, the base is cut through, th...
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naga millsphot P47960.jpg View over Tanhai village. Konyak. photographs Konyak Tanhai Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which...
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naga millsphot P47961.jpg View over the grass-thatched roofs of houses that constitute an outlying ward (khel). Chang, Tuensang village ([at the time] Unadministered Area). photographs Chang Tuensang ...
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naga millsphot P47962.jpg Chief (Ang) of Tang village carrying the type of dao proper only to those of chiefly class. He wears cane-ring leg and arm ornaments, ivory armlets, cowrie necklet and a head...
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naga millsphot P47963.jpg Girl with shaved head. She wears broad cane ear-rings, cane-ring waist-belt, metal bracelets and necklaces. Konyak, Yungphong village. photographs Konyak Yungphong Mills/ J.P...
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naga millsphot P47964.jpg Young man, son of chief (Ang) of Chi. He wears a tight cane belt, many bead necklaces, a multi-coloured baldric and cane garters below the knees. His chest bears the newly-ta...
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naga millsphot P47965.jpg Skull trophies, decorated with bamboo leaf tassels and mithan horns, hanging on strings in the men's house (morung). Chang, Hakchang village ([at the time] Unadministered Are...
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naga millsphot P47966.jpg Head-hunting ritual: widow of warrior slain on raid is dressed in warrior's cane hat and carrying ceremonial dao, awaits return of warring party sent to avenge her husband's ...
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naga millsphot P47967.jpg [men sitting on raised platform outside a morung at Kamahu] photographs Kamahu Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless unc...
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naga millsphot P47968.jpg Men squatting in the long grass and objecting to the passage of a Government column. Konyak (Unadministered area), Yonghong village. photographs Konyak Yonghong Mills/ J.P. 1...
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naga millsphot P47969.jpg Two girls wearing hair fillets, large ear studs, bead necklaces and narrow cotton skirts, characteristic of the Konyak tribe. Hungphoi village. photographs Konyak Hungphoi Mi...
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naga millsphot P47970.jpg Head-hunting ritual: monolith and associated horizontal stone on which captured enemies' heads are placed during head-taking ceremonies: Man, chief (Ang) standing beside mono...
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naga millsphot P47971.jpg Skull trophies arranged on rows of wooden shelves in the men's house (morung) which is attached to the house of the chief (Ang) of the village. Konyak, Chi village. photograp...
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naga millsphot P47972.jpg Man holding head-trophy decorated with mithan horns and tassels of palmyra. (This head had been recently captured and hung up in the men's house, morung, from where it was ta...
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naga millsphot P47973.jpg High bamboo platform erected at back of dwelling-house which is used as a family work- and play-room. Konyak, Yungya village. photographs Konyak Yungya Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 ...
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naga millsphot P47974.jpg At harvest time offerings of rice beer and grain contained in gourds and bamboo receptacles are hung up on poles set up outside the houses of those who died during the previo...
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naga millsphot P47975.jpg Mixed gang of girls and boys weeding a hill (jhum) field. Ao. photographs Ao Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncat...
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naga millsphot P47976.jpg Two women (mother and daughter), sitting on rear platform of house: they wear the characteristic narrow cotton skirt of the Konyaks, and the young girl has the metal armlets ...
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naga millsphot P47977.jpg Woman with shaved head, which indicates her slave status. Konyak, Lunglam village. photographs Konyak Lunglam Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty ...
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naga millsphot P47978.jpg Head-hunting ritual: Young man, son of chief of Chi, showing new tattoo on his chest. This tattoo was executed after a head had been taken on his behalf. Konyak, Chi village....
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naga millsphot P47979.jpg Man wearing the tight cane belt, characteristic of the Konyaks, and a short cotton apron. Konyak, Shiong village. photographs Konyak Shiong Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentatio...
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naga millsphot P47980.jpg Young man in ceremonial dress, wearing cowrie apron and gauntlets, ivory armlets and the insignia of a head-taker: necklet of three boar's tusks, helmet tufted with hair and ...
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naga millsphot P47981.jpg Women dressed in narrow cotton skirts fastened at one side which are characteristic of the Eastern Konyaks: they wear many bead necklaces and carry wood in plaited cane baske...
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naga millsphot P47982.jpg Front view of bachelor's hall (morung) showing elaborately carved house-posts. In front of the building is the dance place, in the centre of which is the small monolith to wh...
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naga millsphot P47983.jpg Men sitting on the raised platform outside a bachelor's hall (morung); the gable of the building is decorated with an imitation human skull. Konyak, Kamahu village. photograp...
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naga millsphot P47984.jpg Women wearing characteristic narrow skirt and many bead necklaces. Konyak, Lapa village. photographs Konyak Lapa Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Bet...
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naga millsphot P47985.jpg Chief (Ang) of Chi. He wears a cane helmet with hornbill feathers and boar's tusks, and ear-ornaments of conch-shell, tasselled with feathers; both these articles of dress ar...
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naga millsphot P47986.jpg Man and woman in the dress characteristic of the Eastern Konyaks. Man wears a long apron (lengta) and a wide belt and the insignia of a head-taker: plaited-cane hat decorated...
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naga millsphot P47987.jpg naga millsphot P47989.jpg Two men wearing tight cane-belts, palmyra caps, bead necklaces, ivory armlets and long aprons (lengta); one man wears a woven bag slung over one sho...
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naga millsphot P47988.jpg [Kuki family] photographs Kuki Mills/ J.P. 1918-1945 documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text within square brac...
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naga millsphot P47990.jpg Man in ceremonial dress, wearing head-taker's insignia: cane helmet decorated with tasselled horns and boar's tusks, triple boar's tusk neck ornament, and chest pendant carve...
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naga millsphot P47991.jpg Dwelling house of a man who has given a series of Feasts of Merit. The central post is carved with mithan horns and hornbill tails, the cross beam bears representations of wo...
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naga millsphot P47993.jpg Soul effigies carved of wood and put up near the place of funeral: the effigies are put up in pairs (one representing the deceased and the other a companion), and are accompa...
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naga millsphot P47994.jpg Secondary disposal of skull in sandstone funerary cist: this takes place after it has been removed from the corpse platform. The design painted on the skull is a replica of t...
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naga millsphot P47995.jpg Skull prepared for secondary disposal in stone cist; the design painted on skull is a replica of deceased's chest tattoo which denoted his rank as a head-taker. (The skull wa...
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naga millsphot P47996.jpg View of village street that shows the houses standing each in its own plot. the houses are built of bamboo wattle with grass thatched roofs: they have apse-like ends which ar...
Last modification: on 02 Nov 2011 at 16:07:44 - black and white photographs taken by J.P. Mills
naga millsphot P47997.jpg Wooden soul effigy set up in a temporary shelter on funeral ground. The effigy is a miniature figure dressed in warrior's attire and represents the deceased. Konyak, Zakkho v...
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