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:

fresh skulls fastened to monolith, Chi - Konyak - Oct. 1923 [skull hoisted on bamboo tied to menhir to await 'aleapu' ceremony]

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Chi

date:

22.10.1923

production:

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

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	JH.9.91

seealso:

Hutton, 'Two Tours' plate 9:5 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.