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:

Photsimi morung [Incised menhir in Phorr. The gourds on bamboo poles contain fragments of enemy heads and an enemy hand] DARK

medium:

photographs

location:

Purr (Photsimi)

production:

person:	Hutton/ J.H.
date:	1917-1923

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	JH.6.87

seealso:

JRAI v. LVI, 1926, plate VII Hutton, 'The Use of Stone in the Naga Hills'

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.