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 wearing belt ornamented with cowrie shells (akiasa-kikheki), long necklaces of white conch shell (asho-ghila), cowrie-shell-decorated apron (lapuchoh) and the cowrie shell gauntlets (aouka-as'uka) properly worn only by men who have drawn blood. Sema, Sakhalu village.

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Sema

location:

Sakhalu

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:	86/JPM/JPM

seealso:

Hutton, Sema Nagas, pp.11-12