Albums from the J.P. Mills Photographic Collection
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Material Information

Title:
Albums from the J.P. Mills Photographic Collection
Series Title:
J.P. Mills Photographic Collection
Creator:
Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995
Hobson, Geraldine ( contributor )
Place of Publication:
Vienna, Austria
Publication Date:

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Pangsha Expedition
Naga Hills (India) -- Discovery and exploration ( lcsh )
Naga (South Asian people) ( lcsh )
एशिया -- भारत -- नगालैंड -- नगा हिल्स
Naga ( ethnicity )
Konyak Naga ( ethnicity )
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- India -- Naga Hills -- Nagaland
Coordinates:
26 x 95

Notes

Abstract:
Album Y was given to Mills by Haimendorf as a Christmas present. It contains photographs by Christoph Furer-Haimendorf of the Pangsha Expedition in which both he and Mills took part. Some of the photographs were later published in Haimendorf's book The Naked Nagas , (Methuen 1939), which contains an account of the expedition. The last five pictures were taken when Haimendorf was studying the Konyaks of Wakching. There is also a set of Haimendorf's contact prints of this expedition and photographs taken by Mills and others in one of the boxes of this collection. The Pangsha Expedition took place at the end of 1936 and was a punitive expedition led by Mills to rescue children who had been abducted and sold into slavery. Pangsha was a notoriously warlike village in unadministered territory close to the border between India and Burma, whose warriors were constantly mounting head-hunting raids on the surrounding villages. It was during these raids that the children had been captured. The area was unexplored and the villages had never seen a white man. Mills did not even know the exact location of Pangsha. Every day while he was away, Mills wrote to his wife. This journey into the territory of hostile head-hunters was a dangerous undertaking, and Mills wrote: 'For some weeks I have had a feeling I should not come back from this show, but now that has suddenly completely worn off.' The letters were found many years later, edited by his daughter and published by the Pitt Rivers Museum. ( en )
General Note:
Images: Copyright © held by the Estate of Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf. The Estate is currently (2015) represented by Nicholas Haimendorf.
General Note:
Text: Copyright © held by the Estate of J.P. Mills. The Estate is currently (2015) represented by Geraldine Hobson.
General Note:
Album Y is part of the "J.P. Mills Photographic Collection". (Held in the SOAS, University of London, Archives and Special Collections.)
General Note:
Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995. The naked Nagas. 1939.
General Note:
Hutton, J.H. The Angami Nagas. 1921.
General Note:
Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. Hobson, Geraldine, editor. The Pangsha Letters. Oxford, UK : Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 1995.
General Note:
Individually indexed photographs are available as part of the SOAS Digital Library.
General Note:
The Pangsha Expedition was an expedition to rescue slaves held in the Naga Hills of India.
General Note:
VIAF ID: 109123273 (name authority) : Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995
General Note:
VIAF ID: 24095368 (name authority) : Hobson, Geraldine

Record Information

Source Institution:
SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Rights Management:
© Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, 1939.
Resource Identifier:
PP MS 58 album Y ( accession number )