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:

Grave of a priest (puthi) on which a carved post has been set up. The carvings include conventionalised figures of hornbills, mithan heads, human breasts and sun and moon. The setting up of a post of this type on a grave is very exceptional among the Lhota Nagas. Lhota, Pangti village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Lhota

location:

Pangti

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:	1225/SOAS/JPM

seealso:

J.P. Mills, Lhota Nagas, p.159-160