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 posts, set up to commemorate the performance of Feasts of Merit, standing in front of donor's dwelling house. The house is built with plank walls and shingle-covered roofs; the gable is decorated with carved, wooden "house horns" to which the owner is entitled after he has performed a Feast of Merit. Tangkhul, Metikumi village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Tangkhul

location:

Matikomi (Metikumi)

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:	1068/SOAS/JPM