Loads at Mongnyu

B&W photographic print. 'Porters with some of the expedition's loads, which were all transported in lidded baskets made of cane, still used by Nagas today. As described below, coolies [term from original source, indentured/contract labourers] had to be hired as they went along, because they natu...

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Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/B/11 Open

Date(s) of creation: April 1923
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004270
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/B/11
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/B/11
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/B/11
prefix_number 11
title Loads at Mongnyu
scb_date_creation April 1923
scb_level Item
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scb_extent 1 photograph
author Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
author_facet Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
authorStr Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
author_letter Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
format Archive
description B&W photographic print. 'Porters with some of the expedition's loads, which were all transported in lidded baskets made of cane, still used by Nagas today. As described below, coolies [term from original source, indentured/contract labourers] had to be hired as they went along, because they naturally would not venture into enemy territory. The man on the right has his dao in its wooden holder on his back.'
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by J.P. Mills
language No linguistic content
language_search No linguistic content
scb_scripts_material Unwritten
scb_physc_charac_tech_reqs 13 x 7.5 cm
scb_copies Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
note Porters
Machetes
Naga (South Asian people)
Ethnic group: Naga
Ethnic group: 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 ha
Bhumnyu is alternately known as Mongnyu
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004270
scb_url_description Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
hierarchy_top_id_raw PP MS 58
hierarchy_sequence PP_MS_58.0002.00B.0011

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