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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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