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 girl with shaved head which denotes her unmarried status: she wears a white cloth with black marginal stripes, a bugle shaped bracelet above the elbow, brass wristlets, bead necklaces hung from two half conch shells, and large brass ear-rings in the upper ear-lobes suspended by a band across the top of the head and another across the back of the neck. Western Angami, Khonoma village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Angami <Western

location:

Khonoma

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:	116/JPM/JPM

seealso:

Hutton, Angami Nagas, pp.26-28