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 in full dress, wearing a bear-skin cap decorated with hornbill feathers, huge cotton ear-pad ornaments, boar's tusk neck ornament, ivory armlets, cowrie gauntlets, a decorated baldric fringed with hair, cowrie embroidered apron and curved-type tail fringed with human hair. Ao, Ungma village.
medium: photographs
ethnicgroup: Ao
location: Ungma
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: 38/JPM/JPM
seealso: Mills, Ao Nagas, pp.41-55