Profile portrait of Ungma Gaonbura (Image number L.010, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
Gaonbura (government's post or 'headman') poses in full dance dress in Mills' garden. He wears a body cloth of a pattern which signifies that he has done the full series of mithun sacrifices, like his father (Süvangsü). The head-dress is a circlet of bear's fur decorated wit...
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Profile portrait of Ungma Gaonbura (Image number L.010, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource]. |
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| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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1923, ©1926.
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SOAS Digital Library.
ASC. REGIONS. RSA. JPMILLS. ILOAA. |
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