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 warrior's dress wearing cane helmet decorated with horns carved from hornbill beak and red goat's hair and black human hair tassels, fringed baldric, and apron embroidered with cowrie shells. The cane helmet is now obsolete. Rengma, Thegwepegedenyu village.

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Rengma

location:

Thegwepekenyu (Thegwepegedenyu)

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:	75/JPM/JPM

seealso:

Mills, Rengma Nagas, pp.27 ff