Y-posts in front of a house (Image number P.063, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)

Y posts carved with buffalo heads are set up after Feasts of Merit. At these feasts the Eastern Rengma sacrifice buffalo, not mithun. The giver of the feast earns the right to certain decorations of his house and leand his wife are entitled to wear special designs on their cloths after jiving the fi...

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Full title: Y-posts in front of a house (Image number P.063, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource].
Format: Photo           
Language: English
Published: 1924.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
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REGIONS.
RSA.
JPMILLS.
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