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- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004138/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- The expedition had halted beside the Yangman River for the nights of the 14 and 15 April to allow much needed time for rest, washing, and the drying out clothes and equipment. Up to now the weather had been exceptionally wet; everyone was continually soaked, and as a result there were several cases of illness. While at this camp, sepoys and Nagas fished, while Hutton caught up with official correspondence which had been brought in by runner. There was no respite from office work even while on tour. ( en )
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- This item may be used under license: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial (CC BY-NC)
- General Note:
- VIAF ID: 24750269 (name authority) : Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960
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- Original caption: View down the Yangmun valley from Okha
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- Date of photograph: 1923 April 16
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- Ethnologue reference for the Naga people is located at http://www.ethnologue.com/language/nbe
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- On 16 April, J.P. Mills and company travelled to the next camp, at Okha, the villagers enquiring whether they should "clear the same site the sahib had used last time." This was Colonel Woodthorpe, 48 years previously. The eggs presented as a gift were "for a change, neither addled nor bad - they hatched that evening in the kitchen."
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- VIAF ID: 14843423 (name authority) : Hutton, J. H. (John Henry), 1885-1968
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- VIAF ID: 33326488 (name authority) : Woodthorpe, R. G. (Robert Gosset).
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- VIAF ID: 24750269 (name authority) : Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1974
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- The Konyak tribe lived in the northern part of the Naga Hills. To the west the Konyaks bordered the Assam plains and the Ao Nagas; on the south-east were the Phoms, and on the east the Singphos of Burma. At the time of these photographs much of their country was unadministered and little known and some of the villages visited during this expedition had never before been seen by Europeans.
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- Okha is also spelled Okhe
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- Reference: Hutton, J. H. (John Henry), 1885-1968. Tour Diary. April 1923. (Held in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford).
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- Reference: Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. Letters to Henry Balfour. (Held in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford).
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- Reference: MacGregor, C.R., Major. Journey of the Expedition under Colonel Woodthorpe from Upper Assam to the Irawadi, and return over the Patkoi Range. London : Royal Geographical Society, 1886.
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- The album in which this image was originally collected mainly contains photographs taken during a punitive expedition in April 1923 to the Konyak village of Yungya, certain inhabitants of which had carried out a head-hunting raid on Kamahu. J.P. Mills was Assistant Commissioner, Mokokchung at this time. He accompanied J.H. Hutton, Deputy Commissioner, Kohima, who was his superior and therefore wrote the official Tour Diary for the expedition. The military escort of Gurkhas was commanded by Captain W.B.S. Shakespear.
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- Originally collected in Album A of the "J.P. Mills Photographic Collection". (Held in the SOAS, University of London, archives and special collections.)
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- VIAF name authority for "Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960" is record number 24750269.
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- B&W photographic print
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- VIAF ID: 24095368 (name authority) : Hobson, Geraldine
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS, University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- Image: © 1923, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson.
- Resource Identifier:
- PP MS 58/02/A/15 ( calm reference )
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