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 ceremonial dress, wearing a cap of bear's skin (ayabo) decorated with hornbill feathers, apron embroidered with cowrie shells (amini-kedah), metal bracelets, ivory armlets and bead necklaces. He carries a spear and a dao. Sema, Baimho village.

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Sema

location:

Baimho

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:	85/JPM/JPM

seealso:

Hutton, Sema Nagas, pp.15-17