Wooden grave effigy at Choha (Image number B.019, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)

This village had never before been visited by Europeans. The image shows a wooden grave effigy place in a little house alongside the corpse platform on which the body is placed after death. Eight to ten days after death, the head is removed from the body, cleaned and put into an urn with a flat ston...

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Full title: Wooden grave effigy at Choha (Image number B.019, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource].
Format: Photo           
Language: English
Published: 1923.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
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Summary: This village had never before been visited by Europeans. The image shows a wooden grave effigy place in a little house alongside the corpse platform on which the body is placed after death. Eight to ten days after death, the head is removed from the body, cleaned and put into an urn with a flat stone covering it.
Language: English
Published: 1923.
Subjects:
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
ASC.
REGIONS.
RSA.
JPMILLS.
ILOAA.
Access: Image: © 1923, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson.
Place of Publication: India -- Nagaland -- Mon District -- Ukha.