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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004584/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Leopard killed in Ngabu's trap. This one may have been trapped in Mills' garden at Mokokchung. A trap is a long, low structure made by driving stakes into the ground and lashing them together at the top. One end is left open, and over this a heavy door is suspended. Inside are two compartments, in the further of which a goat is put as bait. When the leopard enters the trap to try to get at the goat, the outer door falls shut behind it. Mills would then be summoned to shoot the leopard, and a man would crawl into the trap and pull its tail to make sure it was dead, a somewhat hazardous procedure if it was not. ( en )
- General Note:
- Date of photograph: 1922 November, ©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/27 ( calm reference )
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