The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

black and white photographs by J.H. Hutton

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caption: Ao - figures of leading men of Mongsemdi and their wives made by Susu for sympathetic magic [wooden figures made by Chuchu Yimlang to bewitch certain persons of Mongsenyimti]
medium: photographs
ethnicgroup: Ao
location: Mongsenyimti (Mongsemdi) Chuchu Yimlang (Susu)
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 1913-1923
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: JH.2.67-68
seealso: Mills, 'Ao Nagas' facing p. 193
note: captions to the negatives sometimes vary from captions to the plates used in books. The latter is put within square brackets. The dates refer to visits mentioned in Hutton's Tour Diaries.