All the images are from the book; The Nagas By ALBAN VON STOCKHAUSEN.
“Mem sahib in her Pull-Man” – Photographed by E.W Clark; Undated
Mr & Mrs. Clark on the porch of a house with Naga people. Photograph attributed to James Buckingham, c.1880
Village Barber: Ao Naga
Young Evangelist and his wife
Ao woman photograph by William H Furness, 1900
A large number of dancers in full ceremonial dress participating in a dance; Ao Naga.
Photograph by J.P Mills, 1919-1920
Villagers gathered around the body of a slained leopard. The arrival of its corpse at the village is accompanied by the same chants that follow a successful head-hunting raid. Ungma (Ao Naga)
Photograph by J.P Mills, 1919-1920
Front of the house of Litinimangyang of the Chongli group. The plain forked posts on the right commemorate the first Mithun sacrifice, the squat round post with the pointed top on the left the second sacrifice, and the carved and painted tiered posts beside it the third and final sacrifice in a full cycle of feasts. Sungratsü (Ao Naga). Photograph by J.P Mills, July 1923
The narrow path which can easily be defended, leading onto the village. Photograph by J.P Mills, 1920
Portrait of an Ao woman wearing several rows of carnelian bead necklaces with trumpet-shaped metal pieces (metsungsangshi), and ear ornament made of crystal or glass (tongbang).
Photograph by J.P Mills, 1920s
Logdrum at Mokokchung, Ao Naga.
Photograph by C.R Stonor, Dec. 1947
Ceremonial dress for mithun sacrifice. Chuchu Nupag (Prob. Chuchu Yimpang). Ao Naga.
Photograph by C.R Pawsey, c.1920-4
Ao girl dressed for a festival. Khensa village, Nagaland. Photograph Milada Ganguli, 1968
“With a swollen foot, I’m brought on a carrier from Chongliyimsen to Mokokchung.” Ao Area, 1937
Photograph of young Ao women, standing in front of a house at Mirinokpo. Photograph by Kauffmann, 1937
View over the roofs of the Ao village of Longsamtang (Longjemdang), 1937
Village Street in the Chang village of Yongyimti. 4th May, 1937.
Morung at Mirinokpo. 1937
Granaries built on stilts and stone discs to keep rats away. Outside the Ao village of Longsamtang (Longjemdang). Jan. 1937.
Girls in front of a smith’s house standing behind a Y-post commemorating a mithun sacrifice in the Ao village of Ungma.
4th Feb. 1937.
Modern painted stone memorial in the Ao village of Ungma, which still stands today. 3rd Feb. 1937
Girls pounding rice in the Ao village of Longsamtang (Longsemdang). Feb. 1937
Slow slaughtering of a cow on the occasion of the spring festival (Moatsü) in the Ao village of Lungkhung. April/1937Ao village of Lungkhung. April/1937
Distribution of meat on the occasion of the spring festival (Moatsü) in the Ao village of Lungkhung. April/1937
Grave of a rich man at Mirinokpo village in Ao area. Jan. 1937
Bamboo platform with skulls of the deceased of the Ao village of Ungma, surrounded by bamboo poles for protection. 4th Feb. 1937.
Inside Akoya Baptist Church. 15th July 1937
After having been destroyed by a fire, the Ao village of Mongsenyimti is being rebuilt with temporary huts before the more permanent new houses are constructed. 2nd May 1937
An Ao woman from Longmisa village leaning on her basket. May 1937.
An Ao woman of the Chungli speaking group of Mokokchung village wearing yongmen (head spirals), tongbang (ear ornament), metsungsangshi and chubakup (two types of carnelian bead necklaces), and an etsüngsü (blue shawl). 1937
A woman from Merinokpo village with a chest tattoo. Jan. 1937
The Ao Naga wife of Ongli-Ngaku, the main Chang interpreter of the SDO Mokokchung, with her child, wearing a mix of western and traditional dress. Jan. 1937
Large log drum with styled mithun-head as front end, rotting outsite the morung in the Ao village of Anaki. 18th March 1937.
The Nokinketer 
So impressive to see some artifacts
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