Portrait of two warriors (Image number G.028, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
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Title:
Portrait of two warriors (Image number G.028, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
Series Title:
J.P. Mills Photographic Collection
Creator:
Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960.
Hobson, Geraldine ( contributor )
Publication Date:
Materials:
B&W photographic print 9.5x7 cm ( medium )

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Spears ( lcsh )
Hunters ( lcsh )
Warriors ( lcsh )
Dao
Machetes ( lcsh )
एशिया -- भारत -- नगालैंड -- वोखा जिला
এশিয়া -- ভারত -- নাগাল্যান্ড
Naga (South Asian people) ( lcsh )
Naga ( ethnicity )
Lotha Naga ( ethnicity )
नागा ( ethnicity )
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- India -- Nagaland -- Wokha District -- Okotso
Coordinates:
26.284686 x 94.336064

Notes

Abstract:
One seen from the front, one from the back, their body cloths tied for occasions such as hunting or war, when both arms must be free. They carry hunting spears, with wooden shafts and iron blades. These are always thrown, and never used for thrusting. The range is not more than thirty yards. The dao, in its wooden holder, is carried in the small of the back. This is the indispensable all purpose tool, used for anything from slaying an enemy, cutting up food, cutting down a tree or cutting one's hair. The man seen on the left is also seen in photographs G.011 and G.012. ( en )
General Note:
Date of photograph: 1919 June, ©1922
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 G. All the photographs in this album are of Lhotas and were taken in 1919, when Mills was based at Mokokchung, and engaged in writing The Lotha (Lhota) Nagas, published in 1922. Many of the images appear in that book. At this time the tribe numbered about 20,000, occupying the area of the Lower Doyang river, and bordered to the south by the Western Rengmas, to the north-east by the Aos, the south-east the Semas and the plains of Assam on the western side.
General Note:
Originally collected in Album G of the "J.P. Mills Photographic Collection". (Held in the SOAS, University of London, Archives and Special Collections.)
General Note:
Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. The Lhota Nagas. London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1922. (LCCN: 23005149)
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/njh

Record Information

Source Institution:
SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Rights Management:
Image: © 1919, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson.
Resource Identifier:
PP MS 58/02/G/28 ( calm reference )