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:

The head and limbs of a tiger killed in hunting are hung up on a tree beside the village path; its mouth is stuffed with leaves so that it may not eat the inhabitants of the Land of the Dead. Lhota, Wokha village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Lhota

location:

Wokha

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:	1227/SOAS/JPM

seealso:

J.P. Mills, Lhota Nagas, p.66-67