Hampe's widow : a portrait of a woman in warrior's dress

B&W photographic print. 'Mills went to the village of Yungya to free prisoners from other villages. Coming back from this expedition, he arrived at the village Kamahu wiht four of the prisoners and was received with a dance of welcome performed by the women of which this is one, the widow of Ham...

Full description


Date(s) of creation: April 1923-October 1923
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004408
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

collection SOAS Archive
id PP_MS_58.02.E.10
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber PP MS 58/02/E/10
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/E/10
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/E/10
prefix_number 10
title Hampe's widow : a portrait of a woman in warrior's dress
scb_date_creation April 1923-October 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
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. 'Mills went to the village of Yungya to free prisoners from other villages. Coming back from this expedition, he arrived at the village Kamahu wiht four of the prisoners and was received with a dance of welcome performed by the women of which this is one, the widow of Hampe, wearing her late husband's hat, etc. He wrote to Balfour that "they wore men's hats, boar's tushes and carried headless spears. The dance was at the prisoners and presumably meant to show them the sex and quality of the warriors good enough to beat them... I think it was lucky the prisoners had a guard on them, or they would have been scratched to bits".'
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 9.5 x 7 cm
scb_copies Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
note Dance
Naga (South Asian people)
Ethnic group: Naga
Ethnic group: Konyak Naga
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004408
scb_url_description Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
hierarchy_top_id_raw PP MS 58
hierarchy_sequence PP_MS_58.0002.00E.0010