Carved post at Sangnu (Sangnyu) (Image number E.027, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
Hutton describes the Ang's house as having 27 enormous posts supporting the roof. This may be one of them. "lt (also) contains a piece of magnificent wood about 20ft long by 12ft high (6.09m x 3.65m high) at least (with) all sorts of carving in relief, some in high relief, other parts st...
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Carved post at Sangnu (Sangnyu) (Image number E.027, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource]. |
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| Language: | English |
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1923.
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| 001 | LOAA004427_00001 | ||
| 005 | 20150314215158.0 | ||
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| 024 | 7 | |a PP MS 58/02/E/27 |2 calm reference | |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Carved post at Sangnu (Sangnyu) (Image number E.027, 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 20 | ||
| 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 photograph is part of album E. Like the albums A to D, this album contains photographs taken in the Konyak country in 1923. J.P. Mills was travelling with J.H. Hutton in April and October, but probably without him in August. 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 E of the "J.P. Mills Photographic Collection". (Held in the SOAS, University of London, Archives and Special Collections.) | ||
| 500 | |a Jacobs, Julian. The Nagas : hill peoples of Northeast India : society, culture, and the colonial encounter. London : Thames and Hudson, 1990. | ||
| 500 | |a Hutton, John Henry. Tour Diary [manuscript]. 1923 April. (Held by the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford) | ||
| 500 | |a Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. [Letters to Henry Balfour.] (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 Hutton describes the Ang's house as having 27 enormous posts supporting the roof. This may be one of them. "lt (also) contains a piece of magnificent wood about 20ft long by 12ft high (6.09m x 3.65m high) at least (with) all sorts of carving in relief, some in high relief, other parts standing on projecting ledges and cut entirely away from the background but all done in the same piece of wood. There were two big tigers ... a couple of warriors and a mother suckling her child ... a man and woman performing the sexual act, a cock crowing excellently carved, a big snake ... human heads ... and a jappa (basket) standing absolutely clear of the main block (used) as a receptacle ... AII this carving was attributed to a more or less mythical ancestor and must be excessively old". The Nagaland Tourism booklet describes "a wonderful wooden monument measuring 8 feet (2.84m) in height and 12 feet (3.65m) in breadth - believed to be constructed by heavenly angels". This is almost certainly a fragment of the same carving described by Hutton. The connection between head-hunting and fertility is plain. | |
| 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 Poles. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Wood poles. | |
| 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 | |
| 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 Shangnyu. | ||
| 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/00/44/27/00001/00027thm.jpg |