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 and daughter in ceremonial dress standing in front of posts put up in the course of feasts of merit. The man wears the square apron covered with cowries (amini-kedah), elephant-tusk armlets (akaha-ghi), and the cowrie-gauntlets (aouka-as'uka) that denote that the wearer has drawn blood; the girl wears a cowrie shell belt, cane ring girdle, bell-metal armlets and bracelets, and necklaces of conch shell and glass beads. Sema, Sakhalu village.

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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:	102/SOAS/JPM

seealso:

Hutton, Sema Nagas, pp.11-18