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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004525/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- The slain tiger is lashed to a bier in a standing position, its tail straight up and its mouth propped open. Carried by two lines of men, it is being brought into (probably) Mills' garden, watched by an admiring crowd. A man who has killed a tiger is highly honoured and respected in the village. The event is celebrated as would be a successful head-hunting raid, and the warriors dance round it when it is carried in. Nagas consider a tiger to be the elder bother of man. The procession pauses while Miren is offered rice beer from a bamboo vessel by Ngaku, who had killed the tiger. ( en )
- General Note:
- Date of photograph: 1920 September
- 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 H. Most of the photographs in this album were taken in 1920, though the earliest is dated 1918 and there are a few from 1923. Nos. H.7-18 may not have been taken by Mills, as it is not his writing on the back.
- General Note:
- Originally collected in Album H 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 Ao Nagas. London : Macmillan & Co., 1926. (LCCN: 27013331)
- General Note:
- VIAF ID: 2475026 (name authority) : Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960
- 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: © 1920, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson.
- Resource Identifier:
- PP MS 58/02/H/19 ( calm reference )
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