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:

Men's house (dekachang) built with plank walls and grass thatched roof. Wooden central post carved with stylised representations of human heads, women's breasts and mithan tails. (Customs in Eastern villages differ from those in Western, where the institution of the men's house is practically unknown.) Eastern Sema, Lazemi village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Sema <Eastern

location:

Lazami (Lazemi)

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:	73/JPM/JPM

seealso:

Hutton, Sema Nagas, p.37