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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Man (headman) in full ceremonial dress; he wears bear-skin cap (avabo), which is decorated with hornbill feathers, fringed baldric (amlakha), square apron (amini-kedah) and panji-basket with tail ornament (asaphu) attached. He carries a spear in the right hand and a dao in a bamboo sheath on his back. Sema.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Sema

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:	97/SOAS/JPM

seealso:

Hutton, Sema Nagas, pp. 15-16