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: Konyak - skull phalli at Wakching [Models of stone cists used by Wakching village for skulls of their dead. These are male cists; female cists take a different form]
medium: photographs
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 18.6.1925?
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 1924-1928
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: JH.10.68
seealso: JRAI LVIII, 1928, plate XL Hutton, 'The Significance of Headhunting in Assam'
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.