Eastern Rengma funeral monument

B&W photographic print. 'It consists of a rough semicircular stone platform built beside a village path so that the spirit of the dead man will watch over and bless the crops and those who cultivate the fields. On it is built a tiny house which contains samples of every kind of edible grain. Fro...

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Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/R/41 Open

Date(s) of creation: [1919-1937]
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004967
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/R/41
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/R/41
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/R/41
prefix_number 41
title Eastern Rengma funeral monument
scb_date_creation [1919-1937]
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. 'It consists of a rough semicircular stone platform built beside a village path so that the spirit of the dead man will watch over and bless the crops and those who cultivate the fields. On it is built a tiny house which contains samples of every kind of edible grain. From a wooden framework are suspended gourds symbolising the head trophies the deceased has won or helped to get, as well as bundles of taro and edible gourds. In front are stuck in the ground bunches of reeds as a tally of the women with which he has had affairs. These demonstrate his virility in life and the fertility which will therefore be passed on to the village and its crops after his death.'
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: Eastern Rengma Naga
Ethnic group: Rengma Naga
Ethnic group: Pochuri Naga
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004967
scb_url_description Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
hierarchy_top_id_raw PP MS 58
hierarchy_sequence PP_MS_58.0002.00R.0041

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