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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Two men in full dress wearing the bear's-hair wig (tegwemvu) of men who have done the head-taking genna, with the three hornbill feathers (gu nyonh) of the warrior, red tassel ear ornaments (niyeng), bead necklaces and tight collars (khomitu), white baldrics embroidered with a zig-zag pattern in red (khirha), cowrie embroidered aprons (nya kekha) and leggings of cane (pha keping); the men carry iron daos with cane covered handles. Western Rengma (Southern section), Tseminyu village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Rengma <Western

location:

Tseminyu

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:	69/JPM/JPM

seealso:

Mills, Rengma Nagas, pp,26 ff