IDNO

LS.125447.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Pagan. N. Nigeria.
Kajji Hairdressing [male symbol]."

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.178, with the following caption:
"Some Kajji Dandies.
The youths dress their hair, sometimes ornamenting it with brass rings. The loin-covering of cloth or leather is universally worn by men of the tribes in the Jemaan Datoro district, and, in addition, there may be a cape of goatskin (centre figure) or sheepskin (on the right) tied by the legs over one shoulder. Brass rings or cowrie shells may be used to adorn this cape, and even the bands of leather around the loin-covering. See p. 103." [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]