IDNO

LS.125443.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Pagan. N. Nigeria.
Kajji Women with tails.
(see also 69.21)."

On Leading Catalogue Card in S.67: "Nigeria.
Most of the Nigerian slides with white labels are those of A.J.N. Tremearne."

Physical Condition: Lanternslide glass cracked diagonally across slide. [JD 14/8/2013]

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Northern Nigeria; Mersa

Cultural Affliation

Kajji

Named Person

Photographer

Tremearne, Arthur John Newman (Major)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1912

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in ‘The Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria’, opposite p.76, with the following caption:
"Kajji Women of Mersa.
The tail - the sign of marriage - worn by most of these tribes is like the above, and is nearly always worn over a bunch of leaves. Nos. 1, 2, and 3 have decorated the edges of theirs with beads, and in the case of Nos. 1 and 3 the stumps have been cased in brass. See p.104." [JD 14/8/2013]

Bibliographical Reference: "The Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria; an account of an official's seven years' experience in the Northern Nigerian pagan belt, and a description of the manners, habits, and customs of some of its native tribes", by Major A. J. N. Tremearne (B.A. (Cantab.), F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I., Sometime Scholar and Prizeman, Christ's College, Hausa Lecturer, and First Diplome in Anthropology, Cambridge). (J. B. Lippincott, 1912). The full text is available on Internet Archive, http://archive.org/details/tailedheadhunte00tremgoog. [JD 14/8/2013]