Two wooden grave effigies (Image number C.012, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
Below the platform on which the corpse of the deceased is placed, are two wooden grave effigies with carved faces. They wear the dress and ornaments that would have been worn in life, and the one on the left carries a dao and spear. The effigies act as channels for the fertility, or potency, of the...
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Two wooden grave effigies (Image number C.012, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource]. |
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Format: | Photo |
Language: | English |
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1923.
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024 | 7 | |a PP MS 58/02/C/12 |2 calm reference | |
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245 | 0 | 0 | |a Two wooden grave effigies (Image number C.012, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) |h [electronic resource]. |
260 | |c 1923. | ||
490 | |a J.P. Mills Photographic Collection. | ||
500 | |a Date of photograph: 1923 October 21 | ||
500 | |a Copyright held by the Estate of J.P. Mills. The Estate is currently (2015) represented by Geraldine Hobson. | ||
500 | |a This item may be used under license: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial (CC BY-NC) | ||
500 | |a The image is part of Album C. The first part of this Album contains photographs taken when Mills was touring with J.H. Hutton in the Konyak country in October 1923. Album B. also contains some photographs taken on this tour. At the time Mills was Assistant Commissioner, based at Mokokchung, and Hutton was Deputy Commissioner at Kohima. The latter part of the Album consists of photographs from other areas. These cannot be dated, but were probably taken at about the same period. | ||
500 | |a Originally collected in Album C of the "J.P. Mills Photographic Collection". (Held in the SOAS, University of London, Archives and Special Collections.) | ||
500 | |a Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909- . The Naked Nagas. London : Methuen & Co., Ltd. [1939]. (LCCN: 40014642) | ||
500 | |a Hutton, John Henry. Tour Diary [manuscript]. 1923 April. (Held by the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford) | ||
500 | |a Jacobs, Julian. The Nagas : hill peoples of Northeast India : society, culture, and the colonial encounter. London : Thames and Hudson, 1990. | ||
500 | |a VIAF ID: 2475026 (name authority) : Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960 | ||
500 | |a VIAF ID: 24095368 (name authority) : Hobson, Geraldine | ||
500 | |a Ethnologue reference: http://www.ethnologue.com/language/nbe | ||
506 | |a Image: © 1923, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson. | ||
520 | 3 | |a Below the platform on which the corpse of the deceased is placed, are two wooden grave effigies with carved faces. They wear the dress and ornaments that would have been worn in life, and the one on the left carries a dao and spear. The effigies act as channels for the fertility, or potency, of the deceased represented by the effigy to return to the soil and thus benefit the fertility of the village. | |
533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b London : |c SOAS, University of London, |c Archives and Special Collections, |d 2015. |f (SOAS Digital Library) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. | ||
535 | 1 | |a Archives and Special Collections. | |
650 | 0 | |a Spears. | |
650 | |a Dao. | ||
650 | 0 | |a Effigies. | |
650 | 0 | |a Machetes. | |
650 | 0 | |a Sepulchral monuments. | |
650 | |a एशिया -- भारत -- नगालैंड -- मेरे जिले -- सोम. | ||
650 | |a এশিয়া -- ভারত -- নাগাল্যান্ড. | ||
650 | 0 | |a Naga (South Asian people). | |
650 | 7 | |a Naga. |2 ethnicity | |
650 | 7 | |a Konyak Naga. |2 ethnicity | |
650 | 7 | |a नागा. |2 ethnicity | |
650 | 7 | |a कोन्याक नागा. |2 ethnicity | |
720 | 1 | |a Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960.. | |
720 | 1 | |a Hobson, Geraldine. |4 ctb | |
752 | |a India |b Nagaland |c Mon District |d Mon. | ||
830 | 0 | |a SOAS Digital Library. | |
830 | 0 | |a ASC. | |
830 | 0 | |a REGIONS. | |
830 | 0 | |a RSA. | |
830 | 0 | |a JPMILLS. | |
830 | 0 | |a ILOAA. | |
852 | |a SOAS | ||
856 | 4 | 0 | |y Electronic Resource |
992 | 0 | 4 | |a http://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/AA/00/43/33/00001/00012thm.jpg |