IDNO

LS.125458.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Pagan. N. Nigeria.
Kagoro women with tails.
(see also 69.4)."

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; Tuku Tozo

Cultural Affliation

Kajji; Kagoro

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.92, with the following caption:
"Kagoro Women of Tuku Tozo.
The tail worn by most of these women is shorter and thicker than that in favour further north. The women with the hair is an Attakka, the hair being probably a sign of mourning. See p. 105." [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]