The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters

caption:

Sema women's clothes

medium:

notes

ethnicgroup:

Sema

location:

Khonoma

production:

person:	Archer/ W.G.
date:	1946-1948
refnum:	14:1

text:

Sema - girls and women - the bead over-skirt bought from Khonoma traders who buy the beads in Calcutta - worn by being pulled on over the head and down the torso and over the hips - they then catch on the buttocks - to take off the girl works them down over her bottom and then steps out of them. Stresses the round curves, the median line and even hints at the groin.

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