Eastern Rengma funeral monument (Image number R.041, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
It consists of a rough semicircular stone platform built beside a village path so that the spirit of the dead man will watch over and bless the crops and those who cultivate the fields. On it is built a tiny house which contains samples of every kind of edible grain. From a wooden framework are susp...
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Eastern Rengma funeral monument (Image number R.041, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource]. |
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| Language: | English |
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[1919-1937].
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Eastern Rengma funeral monument (Image number R.041, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) |h [electronic resource]. |
| 260 | |c [1919-1937]. | ||
| 490 | |a J.P. Mills Photographic Collection. | ||
| 500 | |a Date of photograph: [1919-1937], © 1937 | ||
| 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 image is part of album R. This album consists exclusively of photographs of the Rengmas, many ofwhich were published in J.P. Mills' 'The Rengma Nagas, (1937). At the time this monograph was written, the Rengmas were one of the smallest of the Naga tribes, numbering about 6,300 in the 1931 census. They are divided into two groups, the Western Rengmas and the Eastern Rengmas. At the time of Mills' research, the latter had only been administered for fourteen years, so were an interesting subject for an anthropological study. They were geographically isolated from the Western section of the tribe, who had been administered for much longer. The Eastern Rengmas (today Pochuri) have only three villages, Meluri, Sahunyu and Lephori, of which Meluri is by far the largest. Their territory adjoins the Southern Sangtams to the north and east, the Eastern Angamis on the west and the Tangkhuls to the south. The Western Rengmas are bounded on the south by Angamis, to the east by Semas and on the north and west by Lhotas. They are further divided into Northern (Ntenyi) and Southern (Nzong) sections, speaking entirely different languages and adopting many differing customs. | ||
| 500 | |a Originally collected in Album R 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 Rengma Nagas. London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1937. (LCCN: 37039518) | ||
| 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/npo | ||
| 506 | |a Image: © 1937, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson. | ||
| 520 | 3 | |a It consists of a rough semicircular stone platform built beside a village path so that the spirit of the dead man will watch over and bless the crops and those who cultivate the fields. On it is built a tiny house which contains samples of every kind of edible grain. From a wooden framework are suspended gourds symbolising the head trophies the deceased has won or helped to get, as well as bundles of taro and edible gourds. In front are stuck in the ground bunches of reeds as a tally of the women with which he has had affairs. These demonstrate his virility in life and the fertility which will therefore be passed on to the village and its crops after his death. | |
| 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 | |a एशिया -- भारत. | ||
| 650 | |a এশিয়া -- ভারত. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Naga (South Asian people). | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Naga. |2 ethnicity | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Pochuri Naga. |2 ethnicity | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Pochuri Naga. |2 ethnicity | |
| 650 | 7 | |a नागा. |2 ethnicity | |
| 720 | 1 | |a Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960.. | |
| 720 | 1 | |a Hobson, Geraldine. |4 ctb | |
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