Sherdukpen dancers in Assam, during a meeting with J.P. Mills
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Title:
Sherdukpen dancers in Assam, during a meeting with J.P. Mills
Creator:
Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 ( Photographer )
Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 ( contributor )
Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist ( contributor )
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English
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Photographic film: 35mm B&W negative, Eastman Kodak ( medium )

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Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1909-1995) was born and educated in Vienna, gaining a PhD in anthropology from the University of Vienna in 1931. A grant from the Rockefeller Foundation enabled him to study at the London School of Economics, under the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. In 1936, he went to the Naga Hills in northeast India for his first fieldwork; over the next four decades, he worked extensively in south & central India, northeast India and Nepal. In 1950 he was appointed Professor of Anthropology at SOAS, where he established the Department of Anthropology. During his career, he published seventeen books, most of them ethnographies of tribal cultures. He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1975-77) and a pioneer in the field of visual anthropology.
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This scene was photographed on or approximate to 19440216
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Other designation of photograph: 151/35/Sat Rajas Sherdukpen
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Original Container: BW Negatives Box III
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These masked dancers represent demons in a Sherdukpen version of Aji Lhamu, a romance widely known in the Tibetan Buddhist world, including the neighbouring Monpas : J : P : Mills, Adviser to the Governor of Assam for Tribal Areas, met the Sherdukpen Sat Rajas 'Seven Kings', at their winter camp on the Belsiri River, east of Charduar, where they presented him with an honorary scarf : Each year Sherdukpens and other Arunachal tribes, came to Charduar, in Assam, to receive annual payments from the government : Charduar was the headquarters of the Balipara Frontier Tract, which included most of the eastern districts of present-day Arunachal Pradesh, where Sherdukpens Akas, Mijis, Monpas and Buguns, live : Charduar 'Four-Door/Gate', was one of several duars along the base of the eastern Himalayas where hill tribes came to transact business with the rulers of the plains : Many tribes received an annual payment posa, in goods and/or cash in return for not raiding villages in the plains : For some tribes, these payments continued for several years even after 1947.
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For descriptive reference, see: Mills, J.P. 'Tour note on Balipara Frontier tract' Pam Assam A 143633 (2) p. 1; For further descriptive reference, see: Fürer-Haimendorf, Christophe von. Highlanders of Arunachal Pradesh : anthropological research in North-East India. New Delhi : Vikas Publishing, 1982. Photograph facing p. 121
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Haimendorf's reference: 151_35_Sat Rajas, Sherdukpen
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BW Negatives Box III
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Funded in the United Kingdom by JISC
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SOAS name authority for "Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist" is GB/NNAF/P146323.
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VIAF (name authority) : Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 : record number 109123273

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© 1944, The Estate of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. The Estate is currently (2015) represented by Nicholas Haimendorf, son of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. ----- Creative Commons (by-nc-nd). -- This image may be used in accord with Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs.
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PP MS 19/6/SHERD/0036 ( SOAS manuscript number )
151_35_Sat Rajas, Sherdukpen ( Haimendorf reference )