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:

Forked post set up to commemorate the performance of Feasts of Merit. It is carved from a single block of wood and is decorated with a representation of a phallus. Southern Sangtam, Yisi village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Sangtam <Southern

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:	1198/SOAS/JPM