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:

Sema - miniature morung at Vedami (and Chekiye) [built at the founding of the village. The man is Chekiye, son of Gwovishe, a were-tiger]

medium:

photographs

person:

Chekiye

ethnicgroup:

Sema

location:

Vedami

production:

person:	Hutton/ J.H.
date:	1913-1923

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	JH.3.56

seealso:

Hutton, 'Sema Nagas' facing p. 38

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.