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:

Man and woman in the dress characteristic of the Eastern Konyaks. Man wears a long apron (lengta) and a wide belt and the insignia of a head-taker: plaited-cane hat decorated with boar's tusks and brass collar bearing representations of human heads. Woman wears narrow cotton skirt, metal armlets and bead necklaces. Konyak, Oting village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Oting

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:	173/JPM/JPM

seealso:

Hutton, Diaries of Two Tours, MASB, XI:1, p.15