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...
| Date(s) of creation: |
19 April 1923 |
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| 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 |