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 man in ceremonial dress, wearing cowrie apron and gauntlets, ivory armlets and the insignia of a head-taker: necklet of three boar's tusks, helmet tufted with hair and decorated with boar's tusk, tasselled ear-ornaments and carved chest pendant in the form of a human head: he carries a ceremonial spear tufted with red and black goat's hair. Konyak, Wakching village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Wakching

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:	167/JPM/JPM