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:

Woman's grave situated outside a dwelling house and fenced in with bamboo; after burial the basket and spinning and weaving utensils of the deceased are placed on the grave together with a diamond-shaped frame on which different coloured threads are stretched. Western Angami, Kohima village.

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Angami <Western

location:

Kohima

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:	107/JPM/JPM

seealso:

Hutton, Angami Nagas, pp. 227-228