Man sitting beside a platform on which two stones have been erected

B&W photographic print. 'A man sitting beside a platform on which two stones have been erected. He is probably the giver of the first of the series of Feasts of Merit, culminating in the stone-dragging ceremony, and entitling him to wear the richly decorated stone-dragging cloth. In the course o...

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Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/Y/10 Open

Date(s) of creation: 1936
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004232
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

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recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber PP MS 58/02/Y/10
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/Y/10
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/Y/10
prefix_number 10
title Man sitting beside a platform on which two stones have been erected
scb_date_creation 1936
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. 'A man sitting beside a platform on which two stones have been erected. He is probably the giver of the first of the series of Feasts of Merit, culminating in the stone-dragging ceremony, and entitling him to wear the richly decorated stone-dragging cloth. In the course of the ceremony two mithan are sacrificed and the meat distributed to members of the village. The stones are erected beside a path leading to the fields so that the "fertility" which they are held to possess may be transmitted to the villagers who pass by and to their crops.'
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
language No linguistic content
language_search No linguistic content
scb_scripts_material Unwritten
note Naga Hills (India)
Naga (South Asian people)
Lhota Naga (Indic People)
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004232
scb_url_description Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
hierarchy_top_id_raw PP MS 58
hierarchy_sequence PP_MS_58.0002.00Y.0010

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