Lakyichhari, Chakma : villages on the banks of streams

B&W photographic print. 'All the Chakma villages are on the banks of streams. A few rich men have brick houses of Bengali style, but most of the houses are of bamboo matting walls and are built on stilts, with a large sitting-out platform which always faces east and is the family's main living a...

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Archive & Special Collections PP MS 58/02/V/13 Open

Date(s) of creation: 1926
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005237
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/V/13
callnumber_txt PP MS 58/02/V/13
callnumber-sort PP MS 58/02/V/13
prefix_number 13
title Lakyichhari, Chakma : villages on the banks of streams
scb_date_creation 1926
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. 'All the Chakma villages are on the banks of streams. A few rich men have brick houses of Bengali style, but most of the houses are of bamboo matting walls and are built on stilts, with a large sitting-out platform which always faces east and is the family's main living area. In a country where stones for hearths are not obtainable, cooking is done on a clay base with three clay cylinders serving as hearth stones.'
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 Ethnic group: Chakma
scb_url http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA005237
scb_url_description Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections
hierarchy_top_id_raw PP MS 58
hierarchy_sequence PP_MS_58.0002.00V.0013

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