Eastern Rengma woman wearing a skirt

B&W photographic print. 'She wears a skirt which shows that her husband has given all or some of the series of Feasts of Merit. The top half is white and the bottom half dark blue, and the detail of the pattern, if visible in the photograph, would show exactly which stage in the cycle of feasts...

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Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/R/54 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/LOAA004979
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

collection SOAS Archive
id PP_MS_58.02.R.54
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber PP MS 58/02/R/54
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/R/54
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/R/54
prefix_number 54
title Eastern Rengma woman wearing a skirt
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. 'She wears a skirt which shows that her husband has given all or some of the series of Feasts of Merit. The top half is white and the bottom half dark blue, and the detail of the pattern, if visible in the photograph, would show exactly which stage in the cycle of feasts her husband had reached, even including the tally of cattle killed at the final feast.'
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/LOAA004979
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.0054

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