Portrait of a Yongimsen girl

B&W photographic print. 'A young Ao girl of the Chongli group (black hair band), wearing spiral brass head ornaments also fixed at the ear (yongmen, therefore of Pongen or lungkam clan) and rolled cotton cloth as ear ornaments, as well as some strings of carnelian beads as necklace.'

Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/L/19 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/LOAA004624
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber PP MS 58/02/L/19
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/L/19
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/L/19
prefix_number 19
title Portrait of a Yongimsen girl
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. 'A young Ao girl of the Chongli group (black hair band), wearing spiral brass head ornaments also fixed at the ear (yongmen, therefore of Pongen or lungkam clan) and rolled cotton cloth as ear ornaments, as well as some strings of carnelian beads as necklace.'
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 Naga (South Asian people)
Ethnic group: Naga
Ethnic group: Ao Naga
Yaongyimsen is alternatively known as Yongyimsen and Yongimsen
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004624
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.0019

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