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:

Man wearing small apron on G-string, hand-woven, cotton cloth crossed on chest, bead necklaces and cap. His neck ornament is decorated with tiger's teeth which he is entitled to wear as a taker of human heads. He carries a dao of obsolete axe-shaped type in a sheath at the waist and smokes a soapstone pipe. Sangtam, Yisi village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Sangtam

location:

Phozami (Yisi)

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:	1140/SOAS/JPM