Untitled, 1936 (Image Y.10 : J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
A man sitting beside a platform on which two stones have been erected. He is probably the giver of the first of the series of Feasts of Merit, culminating in the stone-dragging ceremony, and entitling him to wear the richly decorated stone-dragging cloth. In the course of the ceremony two mithan are...
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Untitled, 1936 (Image Y.10 : J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource]. |
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Date of source photograph: 1936.
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SOAS Digital Library.
ASC. REGIONS. RSA. JPMILLS. ILOAA. IASC. |
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A man sitting beside a platform on which two stones have been erected. He is probably the giver of the first of the series of Feasts of Merit, culminating in the stone-dragging ceremony, and entitling him to wear the richly decorated stone-dragging cloth. In the course of the ceremony two mithan are sacrificed and the meat distributed to members of the village. The stones are erected beside a path leading to the fields so that the "fertility" which they are held to possess may be transmitted to the villagers who pass by and to their crops. |
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| Language: | English |
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Date of source photograph: 1936.
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SOAS Digital Library.
ASC. REGIONS. RSA. JPMILLS. ILOAA. IASC. |
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Image: © 1936, The Estate of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson. |
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India -- Nagaland. |