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:

Wooden trough used for storing water. The trough is made from a hollowed-out tree-trunk and the ends are carved with stylized representations of female breasts. The water is conveyed from a hill stream by means of a bamboo conduit. Zemi, Laisong village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Zemi

location:

Laisong

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:	1119/SOAS/JPM