Wooden post set up as a grave figure

B&W photographic print. 'A wooden post set up as a grave figure, with the top carved as a head. This is similar to those of the Angamis. The village had recently suffered a 'flu epidemic, and many people had died.'

Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/T/83 Open

Date(s) of creation: 14 March 1927
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005163
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

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