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:

Skull prepared for secondary disposal in stone cist; the design painted on skull is a replica of deceased's chest tattoo which denoted his rank as a head-taker. (The skull was removed from cist for the purpose of the photograph.) Konyak, Kongan

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Kongan

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:	181/JPM/JPM

seealso:

Hutton, Diaries of Two Tours, MASB, XI:1, plate VI:4