The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

black and white photographs taken by J. Shakespear

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caption:

Man wearing now-obsolete type of head-dress known as luhupa: a conical shaped hat covered with fur and hair dyed red and black, from which is hung a "vizier" decorated with coloured seed-work; two rosettes of seed-work and a circular brass boss ornament the helmet, and the "vizier" is hung with the hair of victims slain in war. This type of head-dress is only to be seen in the Somra Tract.

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Tangkhul

location:

Somra Tract

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:	204/SOAS/Shakespear

seealso:

T.C. Hodson, The Naga Tribes of Manipur, pp.32-33