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:

Group of male and female dancers in festive dress. Man wears horned head-dress, beaded ear-rings and necklaces, striped, cotton loin cloth and ivory armlets decorated with cloth streamers; he carries a short-hafted spear. Girls wear flower wreaths, coloured ankle-length robes tied under the arm-pits, and many bead necklaces. Kabui, Gobindapur village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Kabui

location:

Gobindapur

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:	1146/SOAS/JPM