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: Angami - long nosed soul figure at Tofima DARK [Angami soul-figure from Tofima, where they are always made with specially large noses]
medium: photographs
ethnicgroup: Angami
location: Tophema (Tofima)
date: 15.12.1925?
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 1925-1928
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: JH.11.45
seealso: JRAI v. LVIII, 1928, plate XXXVIII 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.