Effegies of the deceased (Image number D.015, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
A group of carved and painted grave effigies, placed in a shelter belonging to the clan, so that the villagers can see them and remember the deceased as they pass by. They are dressed and ornamented as they would have been in life, and with them are various other objects, such as baskets, associated...
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Effegies of the deceased (Image number D.015, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource]. |
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| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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1923.
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SOAS Digital Library.
ASC. REGIONS. RSA. JPMILLS. ILOAA. |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Effegies of the deceased (Image number D.015, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) |h [electronic resource]. |
| 260 | |c 1923. | ||
| 490 | |a J.P. Mills Photographic Collection. | ||
| 500 | |a Date of photograph: 1923 April 16 | ||
| 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 This image is part of Album D. The first part of the album consists of more Konyak photographs from the tour Mills undertook with Hutton in April 1923. (See Albums A and B). The remaining images are from the Chang and Sangtam areas. This album mainly contains photographs taken during a punitive expedition in April 1923 to the Konyak village of Yungya, certain inhabitants of which had carried out a head-hunting raid on Kamahu. J.P. Mills was Assistant Commissioner, Mokokchung at this time. He accompanied J.H. Hutton, Deputy Commissioner, Kohima, who was his superior and therefore wrote the official Tour Diary for the expedition. The military escort ot Gurkhas was commanded by Captain W.B.S. Shakespear. The Konyak tribe lived in the northern part of the Naga Hills. To the west the Konyaks bordered the Assam plains and the Ao Nagas; on the south-east were the Phoms, and on the east the Singphos of Burma. At the time of these photographs much of their country was unadministered and little known and some of the villages visited during this expedition had never before been seen by Europeans. | ||
| 500 | |a Originally collected in Album D 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 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 A group of carved and painted grave effigies, placed in a shelter belonging to the clan, so that the villagers can see them and remember the deceased as they pass by. They are dressed and ornamented as they would have been in life, and with them are various other objects, such as baskets, associated with their lives. The effigies have wooden "horns", between which the skull of the deceased is placed after it is separated from the body. According to J.P. Mills the fertility or 'soul-force' of the deceased is channelled via the wooden figures back into the earth, thus benefiting the village even in death. (It has to be noted that the theory of a 'soul-force' is not an indigenous concept but an anthropolgical interpretation of the time.) | |
| 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 Effigies. | |
| 650 | |a Charnel houses. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Sepulchral monuments. | |
| 650 | |a एशिया -- भारत -- नगालैंड -- मेरे जिले. | ||
| 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 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a photograph |2 sobekcm | |
| 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 Ukha. | ||
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| 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/00/43/85/00001/00015thm.jpg |