Hill Miri girl prisoner
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Title:
Hill Miri girl prisoner
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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[S.l.]
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English
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Photographic film: 35mm B&W negative, Eastman Kokak : Panatomic-X ( 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 Hill Miri young girl, with her leg in a log, is being held prisoner : the woman behind her is the wife of her captor : Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf described this scene in Rakhe village, in the lower Kamla River valley: 'I saw on the verandah a girl with one leg on sic : a log, which she had to lift as she walked : Later I inquired casually who she was and I was told without hesitation that she was sic : girl of Pemir, a village only about a mile from Rakhe, and had been captured on account of a long-standing debt of her kinsmen : Negotiations about the settlement of that debt of mithan would soon begin, and as soon as an agreement was reached, she would be set free : I wanted to take a photograph, and Rakhe Bida's wife brought her out of the house : It struck me that she treated the girl, who was shy and frightened of the camera, extremely kindly, and the girl clung to her rather like to a mother than to the wife of her captor.'
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The Kamla River is also known as the Sipi River.
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Ethonlogue considers the Hill Miri to be part of the Mising (people) while other sources group the Hill Miri with the Nyishi. The Hill Miri are differentiated by their unique language, Sarak-miri or Hill-miri, from both Mising and Hill Miri.
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This scene was photographed on or approximate to 19450423
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Other designation of photograph: Blank folder/16/Miri village
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Haimendorf's reference: Blank folder_16_Miri village (Bu
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Original Container: BW Negatives Box III
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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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For descriptive reference, see: PP MS 19, Diary, p. 128

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SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Rights Management:
© 1945, 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.
Resource Identifier:
PP MS 19/6/MIRI/0255 ( SOAS manuscript number )
Blank folder_16_Miri village (Bu ( Haimendorf reference )