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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004864/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Y posts carved with buffalo heads are set up after Feasts of Merit. At these feasts the Eastern Rengma sacrifice buffalo, not mithun. The giver of the feast earns the right to certain decorations of his house and leand his wife are entitled to wear special designs on their cloths after jiving the final feast of the series. He may also set up a very tall bamboo tound with cane leaves and with bamboo hoops hanging from it. ( 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.
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- Originally collected in Album P of the "J.P. Mills Photographic Collection". (Held in the SOAS, University of London, Archives and Special Collections.)
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- 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)
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- 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/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/63 ( CALM Reference )
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