The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

letters from J.P. Mills to Henry Balfour

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Positioning of horned heads worn on hip

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Mills/ J.P.

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person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
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Kohima

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July 6th 1924

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My dear Balfour,

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...About the horned Konyak heads. It appears that they are neither worn straight behind nor at the side on the hip, but on the buttock behind the hip. I must try and get a photo of one in situ...

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Yours ever,

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J.P. Mills

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