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 - enemy heads in Shakchi morung [enemy heads decorated with buffalo horns in the morung at Shakchi]

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Shakchi

date:

25.11.1926

production:

person:	Hutton/ J.H.
date:	1924-1928

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	JH.12.56

seealso:

JRAI v. LVIII, 1928, 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.