Apatani men marching to war

These Apatanis are leaving the Apatani valley, after a night and morning of ritual preparations for war : they were part of an expedition, including Assam Rifles, led by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf and Capt : Davy against a group of Nyishis to the west of the Apatani valley : Carrying spears and...

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Full title: Apatani men marching to war [electronic resource] English.
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Language: English
Published: [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1944.
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024 7 |a PP MS 19/6/APA/0551  |2 SOAS manuscript number 
024 7 |a 177_06_Duta (arrival from [?] T  |2 Haimendorf reference 
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245 0 0 |a Apatani men marching to war  |h [electronic resource]  |y English. 
260 |a [S.l.] :  |b [s.n.],  |c 1944. 
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500 |a 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. 
500 |a This scene was photographed on or approximate to 19441213 
500 |a Other designation of photograph: 177/06/Duta (arrival from [?] T) 
500 |a Original Container: BW Negatives Box III 
500 |a For descriptive reference, see: PP MS 19, Diary, pp. 60-61 
500 |a Haimendorf's reference: 177_06_Duta (arrival from [?] T 
500 |a BW Negatives Box III 
500 |a Funded in the United Kingdom by JISC 
500 |a SOAS name authority for "Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist" is GB/NNAF/P146323. 
500 |a VIAF (name authority) : Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 : record number 109123273 
506 |a © 1944, 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. 
520 3 |a These Apatanis are leaving the Apatani valley, after a night and morning of ritual preparations for war : they were part of an expedition, including Assam Rifles, led by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf and Capt : Davy against a group of Nyishis to the west of the Apatani valley : Carrying spears and wearing shoulder armour of the blackened fibres of the sago palm, each man is being counted by the men standing and crouching on the right : as each man passes, the crouching man places another small piece of bamboo on the ground, in groups of ten : the standing man supplies him with these pieces : Each group of nine pieces is crossed with a tenth : When the file of men has gone, he will know how many warriors are in the expedition : this expedition set out to challenge the Nyishis of the Licha clan, who had for years waged war against Apatanis and other nearby Nyishis, taking hostages, stealing mithuns and occasionally murdering someone : the British colonial government was determined to break the stranglehold that this Nyishi clan held over the area, in order to promote civil administration and enable further exploration north, toward the McMahon Line : When the punitive party arrived in the area of Licha, Fürer-Haimendorf and Davy ordered the release of two recently captured Apatanis, a demand that ensured the support of the Apatanis in the party : Negotiations were held, villages evacuated, promises made, ultimatums issued and then ignored : In the end, houses and granaries thought to belong to those most responsible for the Nyishis' intractability, were burned in the settlements of Tabia, Bagi and Kirum in the Kiyi River valley : Several weeks later, this generations-old conflict was settled, temporarily, by the traditional method of dispute resolution, involving long speeches and bamboo pieces as counters, just as they had been used to count the men marching to war. 
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 0 |a Military campaigns. 
650 |a Licha expedition (1944 December). 
650 |a सैन्य अभियानों. 
650 0 |a Apatani (Indic people). 
650 |a एशिया -- भारत -- अरुणाचल प्रदेश -- निचली सुबनसिरी जिला -- अपतानी नदी घाटी. 
655 7 |a Apatani  |2 ethnicity 
655 7 |a अपतानी जनजाति  |2 ethnicity 
720 1 |a Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995.  |4 pht 
720 1 |a Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995.  |4 ctb 
720 1 |a Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist.  |4 ctb 
752 |a India  |b Arunachal Pradesh  |c Lower Subansiri District  |g Apatani River valley. 
830 0 |a SOAS Digital Library. 
830 0 |a FURER. 
830 0 |a RSA. 
830 0 |a PHOTOS. 
852 |a SOAS 
856 4 0 |y Electronic Resource 
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