Portrait of a couple (Image number V.025, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection)
The Khyeng people live mainly in the Arakan district of Burma. The ones living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts are much influenced by Magh and Chakma culture and have few distinctive features. Many of the men wear Bengali style dhotis, but the man in this picture wears a brief loin cloth, pulled throu...
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Portrait of a couple (Image number V.025, J.P. Mills Photographic Collection) [electronic resource]. |
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| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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1926.
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SOAS Digital Library.
ASC. REGIONS. RSA. JPMILLS. ILOAA. |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Portrait of a couple (Image number V.025, 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/csh | ||
| 506 | |a Image: © 1926, The Estate of J.P. Mills. Text: © 1996, Geraldine Hobson. | ||
| 520 | 3 | |a The Khyeng people live mainly in the Arakan district of Burma. The ones living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts are much influenced by Magh and Chakma culture and have few distinctive features. Many of the men wear Bengali style dhotis, but the man in this picture wears a brief loin cloth, pulled through a string round his waist. His hair is done in Mro fashion, in a bun on the side of his head, with a bone pin stuck through it. His wife wears an ankle length skirt, a breast cloth, and a loosely tied puggaree with red embroidered ends. Her ornaments are mainly silver. | |
| 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. | |
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| 650 | |a এশিয়া -- বাংলাদেশ -- পার্বত্য চট্টগ্রাম. | ||
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