House on stilts at Basanta (Image number V.001, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)

A Pankho Kuki (people) village, also containing a few Bonjugi Kuki (people) houses, in the north of the district. The houses are built on stilts, with a porch in front and a sitting-out platform at the back, similar to a typical Naga house. Like those of the Nagas, the Kuki (people) villages are inv...

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Full title: House on stilts at Basanta (Image number V.001, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource].
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Language: English
Published: 1926.
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245 0 0 |a House on stilts at Basanta (Image number V.001, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)  |h [electronic resource]. 
260 |c 1926. 
490 |a Photographs of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. 
500 |a Date of photograph: 1926 
500 |a Copyright held by the Estate of J.P. Mills. The Estate is currently (2015) represented by Geraldine Hobson. 
500 |a This item may be used under license: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial (CC BY-NC) 
500 |a This photograph is part of album V. Photographs of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The Chittagong Hill Tracts are bounded on the west by the plains bordering the Bay of Bengal; to the north is the state of Tripura, to the east is what is now known as the state of Mizoram and to the south and south-east is the Arakan area of Burma. At the time of these photographs, the Chittagong Hill Tracts were a district of the Province of Bengal; they are now part of Bangladesh. In 1926 Mills was temporarily seconded to the Bengal Government to look into and make recommendations for the administration of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. In two months he travelled nearly five hundred miles, mostly on foot, producing a detailed and wide ranging report. As was his habit, he naturally took the opportunity to find out as much as possible about the tribal people whom he encountered, remarking that: 'few areas offer a richer field to the ethnologist [but] such accounts can only come from those who have lived among the people. A casual visitor like myself can only record what the eye sees; beliefs and social systems must remain hidden from him'. These are some of the earliest photographs of the people and villages of the area. 
500 |a Originally collected in Album V of the "J.P. Mills Photographic Collection". (Held in the SOAS, University of London, Archives and Special Collections.) 
500 |a Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960. [Notes on a Tour in the Chittagong Hill Tracts 1926.] (Held by SOAS, University of London.) 
500 |a Hutton, John Henry. [Obituary of J. P. Mills, June 1960.] (Held by the Pitt Rivers Museum archives, University of Oxford) 
500 |a Census of India. Vol. 5, 1931. 
500 |a Löffler, G. Lorenz and Claus-Dieter Brauns. Mru : Hill people on the border of Bangladesh. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999. 
500 |a VIAF ID: 2475026 (name authority) : Mills, J.P. (James Philip), 1890-1960 
500 |a VIAF ID: 24095368 (name authority) : Hobson, Geraldine 
500 |a Ethnologue reference: http://www.ethnologue.com/language/pkh 
506 |a Image: © 1926, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson. 
520 3 |a A Pankho Kuki (people) village, also containing a few Bonjugi Kuki (people) houses, in the north of the district. The houses are built on stilts, with a porch in front and a sitting-out platform at the back, similar to a typical Naga house. Like those of the Nagas, the Kuki (people) villages are invariably sited on ridges. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction.  |b London :  |c SOAS, University of London,  |c Archives and Special Collections,  |d 2015.  |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 |a एशिया -- बांग्लादेश -- चटगाँव विभाग -- रंगमती हिल जिला -- बसंत -- चटगांव हिल ट्रैक्ट्स. 
650 |a এশিয়া -- বাংলাদেশ -- রাঙ্গামাটি পার্বত্য জেলা -- বসন্ত -- পার্বত্য চট্টগ্রাম. 
650 7 |a Chin.  |2 ethnicity 
650 7 |a Thado Chin.  |2 ethnicity 
650 7 |a Pangkhua.  |2 ethnicity 
650 7 |a কুকি.  |2 ethnicity 
650 7 |a कुकी.  |2 ethnicity 
650 7 |a পাংখো.  |2 ethnicity 
720 1 |a Mills, J. P. (James Philip), 1890-1960.. 
720 1 |a Hobson, Geraldine.  |4 ctb 
752 |a Bangladesh  |b Chittagong Division  |c Rangamati Hill District  |d Basanta. 
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