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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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

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