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:

Men setting up the bamboo poles on which to hang the gourd substitutes of heads captured in war. These bamboo poles are cut and planted so that they will not take root and are set up at a ritual site of the village. Sema, Sakhalu village

medium:

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:	1220/SOAS/JPM