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:

View of Khonoma village: in the background is a stone-built clan "fort" (dahu) - "a more or less rectangular pyramidal building which the clan can use a coign of vantage in a riot with another clan" (JHH). Western Angami, Khonoma village.

medium:

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:	129/JPM/JPM

seealso:

Hutton, "The Use of Stone in the Naga Hills", JRAI, vol. LVI, 1926, p.74