Wooden grave effigy at Choha

B&W photographic print. 'This village had never before been visited by Europeans. The image shows a wooden grave effigy place in a little house alongside the corpse platform on which the body is placed after death. Eight to ten days after death, the head is removed from the body, cleaned and put...

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Date(s) of creation: 19 April 1923
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004278
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

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