Jumping place, Guilong

B&W photographic print. 'This is a long heap of soft earth with at one end a tilted block of stone, the hazoa, seen on the right of the picture, from which young men take off in a ritualised long jump after the harvest is brought in. This is the ritual centre of the village, and it is under the...

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Date(s) of creation: 5 March 1927
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005209
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

collection SOAS Archive
id PP_MS_58.02.U.33
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber PP MS 58/02/U/33
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/U/33
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/U/33
prefix_number 33
title Jumping place, Guilong
scb_date_creation 5 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. 'This is a long heap of soft earth with at one end a tilted block of stone, the hazoa, seen on the right of the picture, from which young men take off in a ritualised long jump after the harvest is brought in. This is the ritual centre of the village, and it is under the hazoa stone that heads taken in war are buried.'
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/LOAA005209
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.0033