People performing crafts in front of a house

B&W photographic print. 'Mongsemdi, or Mongsenyimti, is now a Chongli village, but the Mongsem first occupied the site. A woman is seated on a low stool on her sitting-out platform, de-seeding cotton. A man and a boy are weaving baskets, a task reserved exclusively for males. Various other types...

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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/LOAA004582
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

collection SOAS Archive
id PP_MS_58.02.K.25
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber PP MS 58/02/K/25
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/K/25
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/K/25
prefix_number 25
title People performing crafts in front of a house
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. 'Mongsemdi, or Mongsenyimti, is now a Chongli village, but the Mongsem first occupied the site. A woman is seated on a low stool on her sitting-out platform, de-seeding cotton. A man and a boy are weaving baskets, a task reserved exclusively for males. Various other types of basket can be seen in the picture. Behind the man is the woven screen used for closing the door at night.'
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 Houses
Cotton -- Processing
Naga (South Asian people)
Ethnic group: Naga
Ethnic group: Ao Naga
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004582
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.0025