Altar

B&W photographic print. 'Although nominally Buddhists, Chakmas also have a strong belief in animism, making offerings to spirits on platforms such as this one, which also has little squares of thread suspended over it, as on Angami Naga women's graves.'


Date(s) of creation: 1926
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005244
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections