IDNO

LS.125448.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Pagan. N. Nigeria.
Kajji house at Mersa."

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; 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.132, with the following caption:
"A Head-Hunter’s Habitation.
The walls of these houses are only about three feet in height, and the doors are so low that the inmates have almost to dive into them: in fact; when in a hurry they throw themselves flat on the ground and crawl in. Nevertheless, they are marvellously quick at disappearing when they think there is any necessity. The roofs of these houses are very well made." [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]