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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Young man in full ceremonial dress wearing wheel-head-dress of hornbill feathers, which are real as he is a head-taker; he wears ear-ornaments of the emerald beetle's wing and Job's Tear seeds and tassels of red goat's hair; round his neck hangs a sabretache (thatsu) tufted with red and white goat's hair: he wears ivory armlets and wristlets decorated with red hair and carries a ceremonial spear tufted with red and black goat's hair. Angami, Kohima village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Angami

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:	122/JPM/JPM

seealso:

Hutton, Angami Nagas, pp. 28-34