Men at Yungya (Image number E.005, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
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Title:
Men at Yungya (Image number E.005, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
Series Title:
J.P. Mills Photographic Collection
Creator:
Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960.
Hobson, Geraldine ( contributor )
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Materials:
B&W photographic print 9.5x7 cm ( medium )

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Abstract:
Mills went to the village of Yungya to free prisoners from other villages. He wrote to Balfour: "Yungya are properly cooked this time. I surprised them and occupied the village, in the process shooting one of the swine who was chiefly responsible for the whole business. Then I abode with them three days. It was unpleasant for me, but much more so for them, and they wished me gone. So much did they wish it that they gave up the four prisoners." ( en )
General Note:
Date of photograph: 1923 August
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Copyright held by the Estate of J.P. Mills. The Estate is currently (2015) represented by Geraldine Hobson.
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This item may be used under license: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial (CC BY-NC)
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This photograph is part of album E. Like the albums A to D, this album contains photographs taken in the Konyak country in 1923. J.P. Mills was travelling with J.H. Hutton in April and October, but probably without him in August. This album 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 ot Gurkhas was commanded by Captain W.B.S. Shakespear. 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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Originally collected in Album E of the "J.P. Mills Photographic Collection". (Held in the SOAS, University of London, Archives and Special Collections.)
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Jacobs, Julian. The Nagas : hill peoples of Northeast India : society, culture, and the colonial encounter. London : Thames and Hudson, 1990.
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Hutton, John Henry. Tour Diary [manuscript]. 1923 April. (Held by the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford)
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Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. [Letters to Henry Balfour.] (Held by the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford)
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Yongya is alternatively known as Yungya
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VIAF ID: 2475026 (name authority) : Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960
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VIAF ID: 24095368 (name authority) : Hobson, Geraldine
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Ethnologue reference: http://www.ethnologue.com/language/nbe

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/E/05 ( calm reference )