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:

Headman (khullakpa), wearing now obsolete type of ceremonial head-dress: a cane hat decorated with dyed hair, wooden representation of mithan horns, brass boss ornament and toucan feathers. He carries an iron-tipped spear. Tangkhul, Nambishi village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Tangkhul

location:

Nambishi

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:	209/SOAS/Shakespear

seealso:

T.C. Hodson, The Naga Tribes of Manipur, pp. 22, 35