'Yangyam coolies at Mongnyu' [indentured/contract labourers]

B&W photographic print. 'According to Hutton's Diary, these Coolies [term from original source, indentured/contract labourers] in fact came from the friendly clans of Yungya, not Yangam. The man front right is holding his woven headband which he attaches around the carrying basket containing the...

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Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/A/10 Open

Date(s) of creation: 12 April 1923
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004133
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber PP MS 58/02/A/10
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/A/10
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/A/10
prefix_number 10
title 'Yangyam coolies at Mongnyu' [indentured/contract labourers]
scb_date_creation 12 April 1923
scb_level Item
level_sort 8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
scb_extent 1 photograph
format Archive
description B&W photographic print. 'According to Hutton's Diary, these Coolies [term from original source, indentured/contract labourers] in fact came from the friendly clans of Yungya, not Yangam. The man front right is holding his woven headband which he attaches around the carrying basket containing the load. Coolies were of course rewarded for their services, either in cash, or in kind in areas where currency was unknown.'
scb_related_name_code GB/NNAF/P126611
scb_related_name_relationship Subject of
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
scb_physc_charac_tech_reqs 8 x 5.5cm
scb_copies Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
note Naga (South Asian people)
Konyak (Indic people)
Unskilled labor
Porters
Naga Hills (India)
Mongnyu resides in the Longleng H.Q. of the Longleng District of Nagaland, India.
Ethnicity: Konyak Naga
Coolie is the photographer's term. When originally applied, the term 'coolie' was widely used to describe to anyone of Asia ethnicity. It is thought to have originate from terms in Gujarati, Tamil and Turkish roughly meaning labourer or slave. The term has since come to be used as a racial slur.
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004133
scb_url_description Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
hierarchy_top_id_raw PP MS 58
hierarchy_sequence PP_MS_58.0002.00A.0010

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