'Yunghong coolies refusing to go on' [indentured/contract labourers]

B&W photographic print. 'The column was travelling from Yunghong to Angpang. Hutton describes this as "a rather ticklish march, as the two villages are very much at war and Yunghong had the greatest reluctance to meeting Anpang and vice versa, and neither could carry on the land of the other, or...

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Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/B/12 Open

Date(s) of creation: 18 April 1923
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004271
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

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item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber PP MS 58/02/B/12
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/B/12
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/B/12
prefix_number 12
title 'Yunghong coolies refusing to go on' [indentured/contract labourers]
scb_date_creation 18 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. 'The column was travelling from Yunghong to Angpang. Hutton describes this as "a rather ticklish march, as the two villages are very much at war and Yunghong had the greatest reluctance to meeting Anpang and vice versa, and neither could carry on the land of the other, or have the other village on their land. Eventually we got Yunghong - with some difficulty - as far as the place where Angpang were waiting, there let them put [down] their loads and go, after which Angpang came out and picked them up". Interestingly, in chapter 14 of The Nagas, by Julian Jacobs, page 156, headed "Naga Nationalism" this photograph is captioned "Men squatting in the long grass and objecting to the passage of a column, Yunghong village". These men look scared, not warlike, and are not armed.'
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 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
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004271
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.0012

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