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 - baskets [the one on the left, woven very fine to carry rice, shows the pattern called 'arishepuye', the lozenge perhaps suggesting the blaze on a mithan's forehead]

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Sema

production:

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

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	JH.5.10

seealso:

Hutton, 'Sema Nagas' facing p. 56

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.