Portrait of an old man wearing huge cotton wool pads in his ears

B&W photographic print. 'Old man wearing huge cotton wool pads in his ears and a dark blue cloth with pale blue bands (eshamsu), the five narrow ones showing that he has completed the stone dragging ceremony more than once.'


Date(s) of creation: 1920s
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004670
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections