Untitled, 1936 November 22 (Image Y.17 : J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
Sepoys of the Assam Rifles occupying Yimpang, a village which had never before seen a white man. Hanging from the head tree were five heads taken from Saochu, on a raid when slaves were also taken. Because of this, Mills confiscated the heads and they are now in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.
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Untitled, 1936 November 22 (Image Y.17 : J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource]. |
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Date of source photograph: 1936 November 22.
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| 024 | 7 | |a PP MS 58 image number Y.17 |2 accession number | |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Untitled, 1936 November 22 (Image Y.17 : J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) |h [electronic resource]. |
| 260 | |c Date of source photograph: 1936 November 22. | ||
| 300 | |a Undetermined | ||
| 490 | |a J.P. Mills Photographic Collection. | ||
| 500 | |a 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. | ||
| 500 | |a A sepoy was a rank with in the British Indian Army. It was the equivalent of a private. The term is derived from the Farsi word, sipāhī (سپاهی), meaning infantry soldier. | ||
| 500 | |a Reference: Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960, The Pangsha Letters. Edited and with an introduction by Geraldine Hobson. (Oxford : Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 1995). | ||
| 500 | |a Reference: Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995. The Naked Nagas. Christoph Fürer- Haimendorf. London : Methuen & Co., [1939]. | ||
| 500 | |a Reference: Hutton, J.H. The Angami Nagas. London : Macmillan, 1921. | ||
| 500 | |a Ethnicity: Naga | ||
| 500 | |a Ethnicity: Angami Naga | ||
| 500 | |a Ethnologue reference for the Angami Naga people is located at http://www.ethnologue.com/language/njm | ||
| 500 | |a B&W photographic print | ||
| 500 | |a Originally collected in Album Y of the "J.P. Mills Photographic Collection". (Held in the SOAS, University of London, archives and special collections.) | ||
| 500 | |a Album Y was given to Mills by Haimendorf as a Christmas present. It contains photographs by Christoph Fürer-Haimendorf of the Pangsha Expedition in which both he and Mills took part. Some of the photographs were later published in Haimendorfs 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 Haimendorfs contact prints of this expedition and photographs taken by Mills and others in one of the boxes of this collection. | ||
| 500 | |a VIAF ID: 109123273 (name authority) : Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 | ||
| 506 | |a Image: © 1936, The Estate of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson. | ||
| 520 | 3 | |a Sepoys of the Assam Rifles occupying Yimpang, a village which had never before seen a white man. Hanging from the head tree were five heads taken from Saochu, on a raid when slaves were also taken. Because of this, Mills confiscated the heads and they are now in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b London : |c SOAS, University of London, |c Archives and Special Collections, |d 2014. |f (SOAS Digital Library) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. | ||
| 535 | 1 | |a Archives and Special Collections. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a India. Army. Assam Rifles. | |
| 650 | |a Sepoys. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Infantry. | |
| 650 | |a Pangsha Expedition ( Naga Hills, India : 1936). | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Naga Hills (India). | |
| 650 | |a एशिया -- भारत -- नगालैंड -- त्युएनसांग. | ||
| 650 | |a आशिया -- भारत - नागालँड -- टयूएनसांग. | ||
| 720 | 1 | |a Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995. |4 pht | |
| 720 | 1 | |a Hobson, Geraldine. |4 ctb | |
| 752 | |a India |b Nagaland |c Tuensang |d Yimpang. | ||
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| 830 | 0 | |a RSA. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a JPMILLS. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a ILOAA. | |
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| 856 | 4 | 0 | |y Electronic Resource |
| 992 | 0 | 4 | |a http://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/AA/00/42/39/00001/Y.17thm.jpg |