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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004155/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Mode of keeping heads. The heads are displayed on bamboo poles; sometimes gourds are substituted for heads. The horizontal pieces are known as "horns of increase", presumably to further increase the fertility which is thought to come from the head. ( en )
- General Note:
- This item may be used under license: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial (CC BY-NC)
- General Note:
- VIAF ID: 24750269 (name authority) : Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960
- General Note:
- Date of photograph: 1924 November 11
- General Note:
- Ethnologue reference for the Naga people is located at http://www.ethnologue.com/language/nbe
- General Note:
- VIAF ID: 24750269 (name authority) : Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1991
- General Note:
- The Konyak tribe lived in the northern part of the Naga Hills. To the west the Konyaks bordered the Assam plains and the Ao Nagas; on the south-east were the Phoms, and on the east the Singphos of Burma. At the time of these photographs much of their country was unadministered and little known and some of the villages visited during this expedition had never before been seen by Europeans.
- General Note:
- Sampurre (India) is also known as Thachumi and Shipirr.
- General Note:
- Reference: Hutton, J. H. (John Henry), 1885-1968. Tour Diary. April 1923. (Held in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford).
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- Reference: Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. Letters to Henry Balfour. (Held in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford).
- General Note:
- The album in which this image was originally collected mainly contains photographs taken during a punitive expedition in April 1923 to the Konyak village of Yungya, certain inhabitants of which had carried out a head-hunting raid on Kamahu. J.P. Mills was Assistant Commissioner, Mokokchung at this time. He accompanied J.H. Hutton, Deputy Commissioner, Kohima, who was his superior and therefore wrote the official Tour Diary for the expedition. The military escort of Gurkhas was commanded by Captain W.B.S. Shakespear.
- General Note:
- Originally collected in Album A of the "J.P. Mills Photographic Collection". (Held in the SOAS, University of London, archives and special collections.)
- General Note:
- VIAF name authority for "Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960" is record number 24750269.
- General Note:
- B&W photographic print
- General Note:
- VIAF ID: 24095368 (name authority) : Hobson, Geraldine
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS, University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- Image: © 1924, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson.
- Resource Identifier:
- PP MS 58/02/A/32 ( calm reference )
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