IDNO

LS.125444.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Pagan. N. Nigeria.
Kajji family."

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

Place

W Africa; Nigeria; Northern Nigeria

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.136, with the following caption:
"A Kajji Compound
The earth is beaten hard to some distance in front of each house, and when the compound is small the earth of the whole may be thus hardened. In front of each house are the grinding stones. The young boys nave a tuft of hair running along the top of the head, the rest being shaved off." [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]