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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004591/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- This shows an offering as part of the ceremony to drive out the evil spirit which has "captured a man's soul" and caused his illness. A wild boar has been sacrificed and it (or an imitation) has been hung on the post together with a pot and a carrying basket. In cases of more serious illness, the sacrifice, as here, is performed at the actual spot where the "medicine man" thinks the sick man's soul was captured. (Chungtia is a Mongsen village) ( en )
- General Note:
- Date of photograph: [1918-1926], ©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/33 ( calm reference )
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