Profile portrait of Nickshila

B&W photographic print. 'Nickshila, wearing many necklaces of cornelian beads and trumpet shaped lead alloy or silver (metsungsangshi). She also wears large crystal or glass ear ornaments (tongbang). Her hair is bound with strings of black thread, distinguishing her as belonging to the Chongli g...

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Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/L/01 Open

Date(s) of creation: December 1923
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004606
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

collection SOAS Archive
id PP_MS_58.02.L.01
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber PP MS 58/02/L/01
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/L/01
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/L/01
prefix_number 01
title Profile portrait of Nickshila
scb_date_creation December 1923
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. 'Nickshila, wearing many necklaces of cornelian beads and trumpet shaped lead alloy or silver (metsungsangshi). She also wears large crystal or glass ear ornaments (tongbang). Her hair is bound with strings of black thread, distinguishing her as belonging to the Chongli group.'
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 Necklaces
Jewelry
Naga (South Asian people)
Ethnic group: Naga
Ethnic group: Ao Naga
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004606
scb_url_description Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
hierarchy_top_id_raw PP MS 58
hierarchy_sequence PP_MS_58.0002.00L.0001

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