Elderly Konyak head-hunter with three companions

B&W photographic print. 'An elderly Konyak head-hunter with three companions. His cane hat is decorated with boar's tusks and a pair of horns. From them, and from his ear ornaments, dangle long tassels of human hair. His chest ornament of a model human head and the head-taker's basket on his lef...

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Date(s) of creation: 1918-1923
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004511
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections