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:

Young girls wearing large brass ear-rings in the upper ear-lobes, the pair being joined by a string cross the top of the heads and another across the back of the neck: the two girls on the left have shaved heads which denote their unmarried status. Eastern Angami, Satazumi village.

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Angami <Eastern

location:

Sathazumi (Satazumi)

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:	114/JPM/JPM

seealso:

Hutton, Angami Nagas, pp.27-28