Kuki (people) "genna" post, ritual post (Image number O.009, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
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Title:
Kuki (people) "genna" post, ritual post (Image number O.009, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
Series Title:
J.P. Mills Photographic Collection
Creator:
Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960.
Hobson, Geraldine ( contributor )
Publication Date:
Materials:
B&W photographic print 9.5x7 cm ( medium )

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Ceremonies ( lcsh )
Genna (ceremony)
Feasts ( lcsh )
एशिया -- भारत -- नगालैंड -- कोहिमा जिला
এশিয়া -- ভারত -- নাগাল্যান্ড
Naga (South Asian people) ( lcsh )
Chin ( ethnicity )
Thado Chin ( ethnicity )
কুকি ( ethnicity )
कुकी ( ethnicity )
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- India -- Nchan -- Nagaland -- Kohima District -- Nsong
Coordinates:
25.272095 x 93.547795

Notes

Abstract:
A carved post with three forks, commemorating a ceremony (genna). The word genna was used by many contemporary ethnographers to describe any type of ritual. It is probably derived from the Angami word kenna. ( en )
General Note:
Date of photograph: 1924
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 O. The album contains photographs dating from late 1924 to early 1925. They are of a number of different tribes. Two, taken by Mills, are reproduced in the second edition of J.H. Hutton's The Angami Nagas.
General Note:
Originally collected in Album O 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. [Tour Diaries.] (Held by the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford)
General Note:
Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. The Angami Nagas. London : Macmillan & Co., 1921.
General Note:
Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. The Rengma Nagas. London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1937. (LCCN: 37039518)
General Note:
Genna is a Naga word for 'feast'
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: © 1924, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson.
Resource Identifier:
PP MS 58/02/O/09 ( calm reference )