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 of Chingmei drinking rice-beer from a bamboo mug through a bamboo tube. He wears conch-shell ear-ornaments and boar's tusk necklet, ornaments which indicate that he has taken a head. Unadministered Area, Chang, Chingmei village.

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Chang

location:

Chingmei

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:	190/JPM/JPM