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:

Gourds which represent heads taken in war hung up on bamboo poles. These are erected on a ceremonial site on the outskirts of the village. Sema, Sakhalu village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Sema

location:

Sakhalu

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:	1219/SOAS/JPM

seealso:

J.H. Hutton, Sema Nagas, p.176