Ourangkong morung.

B&W photographic print. 'Ao. Foot and hand from a head-hunting raid hanging from cross-beam. Phom. (Wrongly titled Chantongia on page). On the left are highly stylised carvings of hornbills, together with carved human heads. The central plank has two monitor lizards, head to head, in high relief...

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Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/A/35 Open

Date(s) of creation: 1920s
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004158
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

collection SOAS Archive
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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber PP MS 58/02/A/35
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/A/35
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/A/35
prefix_number 35
title Ourangkong morung.
scb_date_creation 1920s
scb_level Item
level_sort 8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
scb_extent 1 photograph
format Archive
description B&W photographic print. 'Ao. Foot and hand from a head-hunting raid hanging from cross-beam. Phom. (Wrongly titled Chantongia on page). On the left are highly stylised carvings of hornbills, together with carved human heads. The central plank has two monitor lizards, head to head, in high relief, with a large coiled snake below. On the right are various smaller animals, including what appears to be another lizard.'
scb_access_status Open
language No linguistic content
language_search No linguistic content
scb_scripts_material Unwritten
scb_physc_charac_tech_reqs 8 x 5.5cm
scb_copies Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
note Naga (South Asian people)
Konyak (Indic people)
Ao (Indic people)
Feet
Hands
Head-hunting
Headhunters
Heads (Anatomy)
Naga Hills (India)
Ourangkong is also spelled Orangkong.
Ethnicity: Naga
Ethnicity: Konyak Naga
Ethnicity: Ao Naga
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004158
scb_url_description Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
hierarchy_top_id_raw PP MS 58
hierarchy_sequence PP_MS_58.0002.00A.0035

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