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:

Funerary monument set up outside dwelling house of deceased: offerings of food and rice beer are hung up on a scaffold erected over the grave. Beside the scaffold stands a bamboo memorial pole decorated with the deceased's shield and carved representations of human heads, mithan horns and miniature birds, insignia to which the deceased is entitled as a head-taker. Southern Sangtam, Yisi village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Sangtam <Southern

location:

Phozami (Yisi)

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:	141/JPM/JPM