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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004427/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Hutton describes the Ang's house as having 27 enormous posts supporting the roof. This may be one of them. "lt (also) contains a piece of magnificent wood about 20ft long by 12ft high (6.09m x 3.65m high) at least (with) all sorts of carving in relief, some in high relief, other parts standing on projecting ledges and cut entirely away from the background but all done in the same piece of wood. There were two big tigers ... a couple of warriors and a mother suckling her child ... a man and woman performing the sexual act, a cock crowing excellently carved, a big snake ... human heads ... and a jappa (basket) standing absolutely clear of the main block (used) as a receptacle ... AII this carving was attributed to a more or less mythical ancestor and must be excessively old". The Nagaland Tourism booklet describes "a wonderful wooden monument measuring 8 feet (2.84m) in height and 12 feet (3.65m) in breadth - believed to be constructed by heavenly angels". This is almost certainly a fragment of the same carving described by Hutton. The connection between head-hunting and fertility is plain. ( en )
- General Note:
- Date of photograph: 1923 October 20
- General Note:
- Copyright held by the Estate of J.P. Mills. The Estate is currently (2015) represented by Geraldine Hobson.
- General Note:
- This item may be used under license: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial (CC BY-NC)
- General Note:
- This photograph is part of album E. Like the albums A to D, this album contains photographs taken in the Konyak country in 1923. J.P. Mills was travelling with J.H. Hutton in April and October, but probably without him in August. 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.
- General Note:
- Originally collected in Album E of the "J.P. Mills Photographic Collection". (Held in the SOAS, University of London, Archives and Special Collections.)
- General Note:
- Jacobs, Julian. The Nagas : hill peoples of Northeast India : society, culture, and the colonial encounter. London : Thames and Hudson, 1990.
- General Note:
- Hutton, John Henry. Tour Diary [manuscript]. 1923 April. (Held by the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford)
- General Note:
- Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. [Letters to Henry Balfour.] (Held by the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford)
- General Note:
- VIAF ID: 2475026 (name authority) : Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960
- General Note:
- VIAF ID: 24095368 (name authority) : Hobson, Geraldine
- General Note:
- Ethnologue reference: http://www.ethnologue.com/language/nbe
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS, University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- Image: © 1923, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson.
- Resource Identifier:
- PP MS 58/02/E/27 ( calm reference )
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