The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

black and white photographs taken by J.P. Mills

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caption:

Man wearing the stone-dragger's cloth to which he is entitled after the performance of the fourth social genna (tsirotsoala): this cloth is called lungpensu or eshamsu and is made of dark blue hand-woven cotton and has five light blue stripes and five light blue lines at the top. Lhota, Lungitang village.

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Lhota

location:

Lungithang (Lungitang)

production:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	1918-1945
note:	documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text within square brackets

acquirer:

person:	School of Oriental and African Studies, London
refnum:	23/JPM/JPM

seealso:

Mills, Lhota Nagas, p.10, 7 (illus.)