Visebhu, a Lhota boy
B&W photographic print. 'Visebhu, a Lhota boy (see O.2).'
| Date(s) of creation: |
January 1925 |
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| Level: |
Item |
| Format: | Archive |
| Main author: | Haimendorf; Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist |
| URL: |
http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004184 |
| URL Description: |
Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections |
| Summary: |
B&W photographic print. 'Visebhu, a Lhota boy (see O.2).' |
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| Main author: | Haimendorf; Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist |
| Extent: |
1 photograph |
| Note: |
Feasts of Merit (ceremony) Stone-dragging (ceremony) Mithun Fertility, Human Naga Hills (India) Naga (South Asian people) Angami (Indic people) The Pangsha Expedition took place at the end of 1936 and was a punitive expedition led by Mills to rescue children who had been abducted and sold into slavery. Pangsha was a notoriously warlike village in unadministered territory close to the border betwe The Feasts of Merit is a series of progressively more lavish ceremonies, culminating in the sacrifice of a "seijang" or mithun (Bos frontalis), a type of cattle. During the Feasts of Merit a man shares his fertility, as indicated by his wealth, with the A mithun, also spelled mithan, known among the Naga as "seijang", is a type of Indian bovine animal, i.e., cattle. |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Copyright: | Copyright held by J.P. Mills |
| Language: | No linguistic content |
| Scripts: |
Unwritten |
| Copies: | Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections |
| Format: | Archive |