Gourds and a head on poles

B&W photographic print. 'Besides many gourds, a skull is impaled on a bamboo pole. Bamboo spikes, panjis, have been pushed into the eye sockets to blind it so that it cannot "see" its enemies. '


Date(s) of creation: November 1924
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004894
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

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