Profile portrait of Chuntia girl

B&W photographic print. 'A young Ao woman with her hair bound up with white thread, showing she is of the Mongsen group. She wears large brass rings on either side of her head (yongmen), supported by a string. Bunches of red chillies worn in her ears mean that she is the daughter of a man who ha...

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Date(s) of creation: November 1923
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004608
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

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