Advance to the Wenshoyi khel of Pangsha (Image Y.22 : J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)

Advance to the Wenshoyi khel of Pangsha; Major Williams with Gurkhas of the Assam Rifles. The platoon of 50 men, together with Mills and Haimendorf, was attacked by 500 Pangsha warriors an hour later. Five Pangsha men were killed, but the Column retired without loss.

Full title: Advance to the Wenshoyi khel of Pangsha (Image Y.22 : J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource].
Other authors: Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995., Hobson, Geraldine.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: 1936 November 27.
Series: SOAS Digital Library.
South Asia.
J.P. Mills Collection.
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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 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: Gurkhas 
500 |a Ethnicity: Europeans 
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. -- Used with permission. All rights reserved by the copyright holders. 
520 3 |a Advance to the Wenshoyi khel of Pangsha; Major Williams with Gurkhas of the Assam Rifles. The platoon of 50 men, together with Mills and Haimendorf, was attacked by 500 Pangsha warriors an hour later. Five Pangsha men were killed, but the Column retired without loss. 
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 Williams, William "Bill", Major. 
650 |a Pangsha Expedition ( Naga Hills, India : 1936). 
650 0 |a Naga Hills (India). 
650 |a नागा. 
650 0 |a Naga (South Asian people). 
650 0 |a Gurkhas. 
650 0 |a Europeans. 
650 |a एशिया -- भारत -- नगालैंड -- त्युएनसांग. 
650 |a आशिया -- भारत - नागालँड -- टयूएनसांग. 
650 7 |a Europeans.  |2 ethnicity 
650 7 |a Gurkhas.  |2 ethnicity 
662 |a India  |b Nagaland  |c Tuensang  |d Pangsha. 
700 1 |a Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995.  |4 pht 
700 1 |a Hobson, Geraldine.  |4 ctb 
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