Portrait of Lentinoktan

B&W photographic print. 'Lentinoktan, a young man in full dress, wearing a bear's fur circlet with hornbill feathers which indicate that he has performed mithun sacrifices, a boar's tusk necklace and other necklaces and two crossed baldrics with red dyed goat's hair. On his upper arm he wears ri...

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Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/M/03 Open

Date(s) of creation: August 1919
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004656
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/M/03
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/M/03
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/M/03
prefix_number 03
title Portrait of Lentinoktan
scb_date_creation August 1919
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. 'Lentinoktan, a young man in full dress, wearing a bear's fur circlet with hornbill feathers which indicate that he has performed mithun sacrifices, a boar's tusk necklace and other necklaces and two crossed baldrics with red dyed goat's hair. On his upper arm he wears rings of elephants' tusk (or wooden imitations thereof) cauntlets covered with cowries and a loin cover also covered with cowries. in his hands he holds a plain dao. The photograph was taken in the garden of Mill's bungalow at Mokokchung, where many visitor used to come along.'
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 Machetes
Naga (South Asian people)
Ethnic group: Naga
Ethnic group: Ao Naga
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004656
scb_url_description Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
hierarchy_top_id_raw PP MS 58
hierarchy_sequence PP_MS_58.0002.00M.0003

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