Mithun tied up for sacrifice (Image number K.028, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
Ungma village is a pure Chongli village. The mithun (Bos frontalis) is a very important sacrificial animal among the Nagas. Normally it is allowed to roam free in the jungle, being fed salt occasionally by its owner. The sacrificial animal in the photograph is tied to a post in the village by a coll...
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Mithun tied up for sacrifice (Image number K.028, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource]. |
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1922, ©1926.
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| 024 | 7 | |a PP MS 58/02/K/28 |2 calm reference | |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Mithun tied up for sacrifice (Image number K.028, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) |h [electronic resource]. |
| 260 | |c 1922, ©1926. | ||
| 490 | |a J.P. Mills Photographic Collection. | ||
| 500 | |a Date of photograph: 1922 October, ©1926 | ||
| 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 K. Many of the images of this album are published in "The Ao Nagas" 1926. Mongsen andChongli are two groups of the Ao, speaking their own dialect and following their own customs. At the time these photographs were taken some villages could contain khels of these separate groups, each khel knowing the other's language but speaking its own. This was often very inconvenient, so a village might decide to speak the same dialect, even though Mongsen or Chongli customs continued to be differentiated among the inhabitants. There were also, of course, villages which were purely Mongsen or Chongli. | ||
| 500 | |a Originally collected in Album K of the "J.P. Mills Photographic Collection". (Held in the SOAS, University of London, Archives and Special Collections.) | ||
| 500 | |a Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. The Ao Nagas. London : Macmillan & Co., 1926. (LCCN: 27013331) | ||
| 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/njo | ||
| 506 | |a Image: © 1926, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson. | ||
| 520 | 3 | |a Ungma village is a pure Chongli village. The mithun (Bos frontalis) is a very important sacrificial animal among the Nagas. Normally it is allowed to roam free in the jungle, being fed salt occasionally by its owner. The sacrificial animal in the photograph is tied to a post in the village by a collar made of creeper, the loop at the end being slipped round the post. Upon its neck is a basket containing a cock and decorated with two hornbill feathers. Tassels of bamboo fibre hang from its horns, The Mithun sacrifice is the culmination of the series of Feasts of Merit, the completion of which brings honour to a man, and an increase in the collective "aren" (a type of force) of the clan and the village. The sacrificer wins the right for himself and his family to wear certain cloths and ornaments and to decorate his house in a particular way. It is possible to deduce exactly what Feasts of Merit a person has given by looking at his house or his cloths and ornaments. | |
| 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 Sacrifice. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mithun. | |
| 650 | |a एशिया -- भारत -- नगालैंड -- मोकोकचुंग जिले. | ||
| 650 | |a এশিয়া -- ভারত -- নাগাল্যান্ড. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Naga (South Asian people). | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Naga. |2 ethnicity | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Ao Naga. |2 ethnicity | |
| 650 | 7 | |a नागा. |2 ethnicity | |
| 650 | 7 | |a एओ 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 Mokokchung District |d Ungma. | ||
| 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/00/45/85/00001/00028thm.jpg |