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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004861/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- A Morung (bachelor's dormitory). Huge tassels of plant fibre hang from the beams, the crossed "house horns" symbolise increase of prosperity, and the central post is carved with conventionalised hornbills, symbolising success, with a lizard carved at the base. No Rengma ever kills lizard, because it is believed to give a soul water on the road to the Land of the Dead. ( en )
- General Note:
- Date of photograph: 1924 March 21
- 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 image is part of Album P. This album contains images taken in 1923-1924 of the Ao, Angami, Zemi, Eastern Rengma, Sema, Sangtam and Yimchungr tribes. It includes a series on the rituals following the taking of a head.
- General Note:
- Originally collected in Album P 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)
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- Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. [Letters to Henry Balfour.] (Held by the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford)
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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.
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- Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. The Ethics of Headhunting. Published in: Discovery. [specific reference, unavailable]
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- Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. Sanctuary of Savages. Published in: Geographical Magazine. [specific reference, unavailable]
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- Whitehead, John, 1924- . Far frontiers : people and events in North-Eastern India, 1857-1947. Putney, London : BASCA, 1989. (ISBN: 0907799310)
- 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
- General Note:
- Ethnologue reference: http://www.ethnologue.com/language/npo
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/P/61 ( calm reference )
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