Portrait of Likok and his daughter (Image number K.007, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
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Title:
Portrait of Likok and his daughter (Image number K.007, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
Series Title:
J.P. Mills Photographic Collection
Creator:
Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960.
Hobson, Geraldine ( contributor )
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Materials:
B&W photographic print 9.5x7 cm ( medium )

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Abstract:
Likok and his daughter of the Chongli group. Likok's young daughter wears a body cloth wrapped round her, shaved head and a necklace. Likok wears small wads of cotton wool in his ears. He has bought the right to wear a necklet of boar's tusks and wristlets of cowrie shells fringed with red hair; formerly the right could only be gained by prowess in war. The string of long shell beads made of the inner part of the conch shell show that he or a member of his family has done the mithun sacrifice. He also wears a cowrie embroidered apron, a baldric of woven cotton and dyed goat's hair and a pair of ivory armlets, all of which demonstrate his status. ( en )
General Note:
Date of photograph: 1923 August, ©1926
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 K. Many of the images of this album are published in "The Ao Nagas" 1926. Mongsen andChongli are two groups of the Ao, speaking their own dialect and following their own customs. At the time these photographs were taken some villages could contain khels of these separate groups, each khel knowing the other's language but speaking its own. This was often very inconvenient, so a village might decide to speak the same dialect, even though Mongsen or Chongli customs continued to be differentiated among the inhabitants. There were also, of course, villages which were purely Mongsen or Chongli.
General Note:
Originally collected in Album K 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:
Jacobs, Julian. The Nagas : hill peoples of Northeast India : society, culture, and the colonial encounter. London : Thames and Hudson, 1990.
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/njo

Record Information

Source Institution:
SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Rights Management:
Image: © 1926, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson.
Resource Identifier:
PP MS 58/02/K/07 ( calm reference )