New Year's figure representing man

B&W photographic print. 'A conventionalised figure of a man placed high above the ground between two poles. During the New Year festival darts are thrown at it, a hit meaning good crops. Mills remarks that it is "about as obvious a remnant of human sacrifice as one could find, and a close parall...

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Date(s) of creation: 18 January 1928
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005086
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

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