Portrait of a man playing a mouth organ

B&W photographic print. 'Dorjoi playing a type of mouth organ, with a wind chamber made from a gourd. The instrument has bamboo pipes arranged in two sets, each pipe being fitted with a 'free' reed. There is a finger hole in each pipe and when the hole is uncovered the pipe will sound as the air...

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Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/O/05 Open

Date(s) of creation: February 1925
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004712
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/O/05
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/O/05
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/O/05
prefix_number 05
title Portrait of a man playing a mouth organ
scb_date_creation February 1925
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. 'Dorjoi playing a type of mouth organ, with a wind chamber made from a gourd. The instrument has bamboo pipes arranged in two sets, each pipe being fitted with a 'free' reed. There is a finger hole in each pipe and when the hole is uncovered the pipe will sound as the air passes through the reed. This, or a very similar instrument was collected by Mills in Charoi vilage, Manipur and is now in the Pitt Rivers Museum. Dorjoi wears a white dhoti (loin cloth) and jacket, a waistcoat and an elaborately tied turban topped with bird's plumes. (The above information was given to Geraldine Hobson by Dr. Helene La Rue, Curator of the Bate Collection and of the Musical Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum).'
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 Musical instruments
Harmonica
Ethnic group: Bodo Kachari
Ethnic group: Dimasa Kachari
Ethnic group: Kachari
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004712
scb_url_description Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
hierarchy_top_id_raw PP MS 58
hierarchy_sequence PP_MS_58.0002.00O.0005

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