Portrait of Takam, chief of Litim with a friend (Image number N.003, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
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Title:
Portrait of Takam, chief of Litim with a friend (Image number N.003, 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:
Takam, chief of Litim (with hat) and a friend. Takam wears a bear's fur 'sweat-wig' decorated with boar's tusks, and carries a dao, decorated with a long fringe of hair, tucked into his waistband at the back. Both men wear boar's tusk necklets decorated with pieces of conch shell, denoting status gained through warfare, and necklaces of beads and long pieces of worked shell. Their cane wristlets are closely sewn with lines of cowrie shells. Their small loincloths are also sewn with cowrie shells in a cross pattern. Mills notes that Takim's friend had "lost some fingers in the War". He may have been one of the Naga carriers recruited to serve in France during the Great War 1914-18. They had volunteered with alacrity, hoping to bring back heads and thus acquire the status of head-hunters. They were disappointed in this, but all returned safely to their villages. ( en )
General Note:
Date of photograph: 1919-1923
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 N. All images of this album have been taken between 1919 and 1923.
General Note:
Originally collected in Album N 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)
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Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. The Ao Nagas. London : Macmillan & Co., 1926. (LCCN: 27013331)
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Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. The Rengma Nagas. London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1937. (LCCN: 37039518)
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Jacobs, Julian. The Nagas : hill peoples of Northeast India : society, culture, and the colonial encounter. London : Thames and Hudson, 1990.
General Note:
Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. [Letters to W. Archer.] Published at: University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropiology. Naga Videodisk. [1980s] cf, http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/naga/
General Note:
VIAF ID: 2475026 (name authority) : Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960
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VIAF ID: 24095368 (name authority) : Hobson, Geraldine
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Ethnologue reference: http://www.ethnologue.com/language/nsm

Record Information

Source Institution:
SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Rights Management:
Image: © 1923, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson.
Resource Identifier:
PP MS 58/02/N/03 ( calm reference )