Portrait of a Lanu Kamzak

B&W photographic print. 'Lanu Kamzak of the Mongsen group, wearing a necklace made if the inner part of conch shells, beads and bone spacers, and a two rwo boars tusks necklace with square cut shells with cornelian beads. On his upper arms he wears armlets of elephant's tusks (or wooden imitatio...

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Date(s) of creation: [1918-1926]
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004562
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

collection SOAS Archive
id PP_MS_58.02.K.05
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber PP MS 58/02/K/05
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/K/05
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/K/05
prefix_number 05
title Portrait of a Lanu Kamzak
scb_date_creation [1918-1926]
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
author Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
author_facet Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
authorStr Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
author_letter Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
format Archive
description B&W photographic print. 'Lanu Kamzak of the Mongsen group, wearing a necklace made if the inner part of conch shells, beads and bone spacers, and a two rwo boars tusks necklace with square cut shells with cornelian beads. On his upper arms he wears armlets of elephant's tusks (or wooden imitations thereof). and in his ears small tufts of cotton wadding.'
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by J.P. Mills
language No linguistic content
language_search No linguistic content
scb_scripts_material Unwritten
scb_physc_charac_tech_reqs 9.5 x 7 cm
scb_copies Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
note Lanu Kamzak (Mongsen man)
Necklaces
Jewelry
Naga (South Asian people)
Ethnic group: Naga
Ethnic group: Ao Naga
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004562
scb_url_description Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
hierarchy_top_id_raw PP MS 58
hierarchy_sequence PP_MS_58.0002.00K.0005