Water trough

B&W photographic print. 'To it water is piped in bamboo conduits, often from a great distance, right into the middle of the village. This trough is a huge hollowed-out log raised on stones, with an extension at each end ornamented with carved representations of women's breasts, and containing a...

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Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/U/31 Open

Date(s) of creation: 8 March 1927
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005206
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/U/31
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/U/31
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/U/31
prefix_number 31
title Water trough
scb_date_creation 8 March 1927
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. 'To it water is piped in bamboo conduits, often from a great distance, right into the middle of the village. This trough is a huge hollowed-out log raised on stones, with an extension at each end ornamented with carved representations of women's breasts, and containing a hollow in which vegetable soap is kneaded. These troughs are made and set up by the young men for the women and young girls of the village to wash in. No young man may wash at one, though an old man would be allowed to do so. Beside the trough stand two girls, one carrying a bamboo water container.'
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
note Naga (South Asian people)
Ethnic group: Naga
Ethnic group: Zeme Naga
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005206
scb_url_description Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
hierarchy_top_id_raw PP MS 58
hierarchy_sequence PP_MS_58.0002.00U.0031

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