The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

black and white photographs taken by J. Shakespear

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Dwelling house built with wooden-stake walls and grass thatched roof. The carved "house-horns" decorating the roof and the posts elaborately carved with representations of human figures, heads, mithan horns and female breasts indicate that the house-owner is both affluent and influential. Tangkhul, Ukhrul village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Tangkhul

location:

Ukhrul

production:

person:	Shakespear/ J.
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:	203/SOAS/Shakespear