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:

Chief (Ang) of Chi. He wears a cane helmet with hornbill feathers and boar's tusks, and ear-ornaments of conch-shell, tasselled with feathers; both these articles of dress are the insignia of head-takers. Konyak, Chi village.

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Chi

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:	172/JPM/JPM