Head hung from a pole (Image number D.022, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)

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|a PP MS 58/02/D/22 |2 calm reference

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|a Head hung from a pole (Image number D.022, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) |h [electronic resource].

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|c 1923.

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|a J.P. Mills Photographic Collection.

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|a Date of photograph: 1923 April

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|a Copyright held by the Estate of J.P. Mills. The Estate is currently (2015) represented by Geraldine Hobson.

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|a This item may be used under license: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial (CC BY-NC)

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|a This image is part of Album D. The first part of the album consists of more Konyak photographs from the tour Mills undertook with Hutton in April 1923. (See Albums A and B). The remaining images are from the Chang and Sangtam areas. This album 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 ot Gurkhas was commanded by Captain W.B.S. Shakespear. 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.

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|a Originally collected in Album D of the "J.P. Mills Photographic Collection". (Held in the SOAS, University of London, Archives and Special Collections.)

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|a Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909- . The Naked Nagas. London : Methuen & Co., Ltd. [1939]. (LCCN: 40014642)

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|a Hutton, John Henry. Tour Diary [manuscript]. 1923 April. (Held by the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford)

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|a VIAF ID: 2475026 (name authority) : Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960

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|a VIAF ID: 24095368 (name authority) : Hobson, Geraldine

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|a Ethnologue reference: http://www.ethnologue.com/language/nbc

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|a The head in the Chang Naga village of Chentang is hung on the pole in the style of the Yimchungrü Naga. As well as heads, hands and feet of enemies are hung on long bamboo poles from the head tree. According to Mills they are considered to be rich in fertility which can be channelled for the benefit of the village. (It has to be noted that the concept of fertility is not necessarily indigenous but an anthropological theory of the time).

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|a Archives and Special Collections.

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|a Skulls.

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|a Panjis.

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|a Bamboo spikes.

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|a एशिया -- भारत -- नगालैंड -- त्युएनसांग जिले.

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|a এশিয়া -- ভারত -- নাগাল্যান্ড.

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|a Naga (South Asian people).

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|a Naga. |2 ethnicity

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|a Chang Naga. |2 ethnicity

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|a नागा. |2 ethnicity

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|a चांग नागा. |2 ethnicity

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|a Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960..

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|a Hobson, Geraldine. |4 ctb

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|a India |b Nagaland |c Tuensang District |d Chentang.

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|a SOAS Digital Collections.

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|a South Asia.

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|a J.P. Mills Collection.

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|a GBR |b SDC |c South Asia

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