Funeral figure (Image number E.028, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
This wooden effigy of a warrior is in a little shelter near the platform on which the corpse has been placed, and friends can come to mourn in front of the effigy, which is thought to act as a channel for the deceased's fertility to pass back into the earth for the benefit of the village. The f...
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Funeral figure (Image number E.028, 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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| Summary: |
This wooden effigy of a warrior is in a little shelter near the platform on which the corpse has been placed, and friends can come to mourn in front of the effigy, which is thought to act as a channel for the deceased's fertility to pass back into the earth for the benefit of the village. The figure is dressed as the man would have been in life, with a feathered head-dress, necklaces, a head-taker's basket and three model spears. (It has to be noted that the fertility concept is not necessarily indigenous but rather an anthropological theory of the time). |
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| Language: | English |
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1923.
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SOAS Digital Library.
ASC. REGIONS. RSA. JPMILLS. ILOAA. |
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Image: © 1923, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson. |
| Place of Publication: |
India -- Nagaland -- Mon District -- Zakko. |