The house of the Great Ang of Chi (Image number C.024, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)

The Great Angs, such as those of Mon and Chi, are aristocratic and powerful sacred chiefs, choosing their wives only from their own Great Ang clan. They hold supreme power, and among Naga tribes their villages are unusual in that the house of the Ang is larger and more important than the Morung (men...

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Full title: The house of the Great Ang of Chi (Image number C.024, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource].
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Language: English
Published: 1923.
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024 7 |a PP MS 58/02/C/24  |2 calm reference 
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245 0 0 |a The house of the Great Ang of Chi (Image number C.024, 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 22 
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 Chui is alternately spelled Chi 
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 The Great Angs, such as those of Mon and Chi, are aristocratic and powerful sacred chiefs, choosing their wives only from their own Great Ang clan. They hold supreme power, and among Naga tribes their villages are unusual in that the house of the Ang is larger and more important than the Morung (men's house). The Ang's house shown here is a fine building 117 paces long. The pillars of one of the stone seats, on which only the Ang may sit, (see also photograph PP MS 58 image number C.023) are visible in front, and beside them a conical pile of small erect stones with a Euphorbia growing on the top. Another stone is added for each head taken. A photograph of this same building appears in a Nagaland Tourism Department publicity booklet available in 1996. The photograph, taken from the same angle, shows very little change, and the euphorbias growing on the pile of stones are still there. 
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 Kings, queens, rulers, etc. 
650 0 |a Houses. 
650 |a एशिया -- भारत -- नगालैंड -- मेरे जिले -- चूई. 
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 Chui. 
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830 0 |a JPMILLS. 
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