Row of girls sitting in front of a carved house wall (Image number O.016, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
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Title:
Row of girls sitting in front of a carved house wall (Image number O.016, 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 -- फेक जिला
এশিয়া -- ভারত -- নাগাল্যান্ড
Naga (South Asian people) ( lcsh )
Naga ( ethnicity )
Angami Naga ( ethnicity )
Chokri ( ethnicity )
Khezha Naga ( ethnicity )
नागा ( ethnicity )
अंगामी नागा ( ethnicity )
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- India -- Nagaland -- Phek District -- Lozapheyemi
Coordinates:
25.7575455 x 93.9496815

Notes

Abstract:
The girls waiting to take part in a ceremony, possibly the Thekrangi genna, which is marked by dancing and singing on the part of young, unmarried boys and girls and takes place over three days. They are holding banana leaf cups for rice beer and sit in a row in front of huge house planks carved with stylised human heads and mithuns. Wraped in dark or white shawls they wear hugh brass rings as ear ornaments and their hair is shaved as a sing of being unmarried. ( 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:
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/njm

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/16 ( calm reference )