Expedition camp at Helipong

B&W photographic print. 'The expedition's camp at Helipong, a small Chang village with jungle clad ranges of hills behind. Mills wrote: 'It is the highest village there is; only 20 houses and very poor. They have no rice at all, only millet and Job's tears....but the view is beyond description....

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Date(s) of creation: 17 November 1936
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
URL: http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAA004236
URL Description: Digital version available online at SOAS Digital Collections

Summary: B&W photographic print. 'The expedition's camp at Helipong, a small Chang village with jungle clad ranges of hills behind. Mills wrote: 'It is the highest village there is; only 20 houses and very poor. They have no rice at all, only millet and Job's tears....but the view is beyond description. You can see from the Burma boundary to the plains'.'
Main author: Mills; James Philip (1890-1960); colonial administrator and anthropologist
Extent: 1 photograph
Note: Naga Hills (India)
Naga (South Asian people)
Lhota Naga (Indic People)
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright held by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
Language: No linguistic content
Scripts: Unwritten
Format: Archive