Profile portrait of Ungma Gaonbura

B&W photographic print. 'Gaonbura (government's post or 'headman') poses in full dance dress in Mills' garden. He wears a body cloth of a pattern which signifies that he has done the full series of mithun sacrifices, like his father (Süvangsü). The head-dress is a circlet of bear's fur decorated...

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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/LOAA004615
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections