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:

Dwelling house of a man who has given a series of Feasts of Merit. The central post is carved with mithan horns and hornbill tails, the cross beam bears representations of women's breasts, and in the foreground stand a row of small stones which have been set up to commemorate the performance of the feasts. Konyak, Akhengwo village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Primi (Akhegwo)

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:	178/SOAS/JPM