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

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