IDNO

LS.125459.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Pagan. N. Nigeria.
2 Kagoro & 1 Attakka [female 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; Kagoro

Cultural Affliation

Kajji; Attakka

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.96, with the following caption:
"Lip Ornaments.
The women wear a disc of wood in each lip, the discs being quite plain or ornamented with beads (as in the case of the upper one worn by the centre woman), or with tin (as in that worn by the women on the left hand). When seen sideways the wearer has a pig-like appearance, as in the case of the Attakka woman on the right." [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]
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