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: Head-hunting ceremonies: group of menhirs, standing near men's house (morung), to which heads captured in war are brought. On the crown of each menhir orchid plants have been naturalised. Konyak, Totok village.
medium: photographs
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Totok
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: 1081/SOAS/JPM