Sochiphing at Pangti : bamboo platform with offerings to a dead man

B&W photographic print. 'Sochiphing, a bamboo platform with offerings to a dead man, including a container of rice beer. The two notched sticks are for his ghost to use as a ladder up to the platform.'


Date(s) of creation: April 1919
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004489
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

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