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NAGA HILLS Album of views of villages, houses, festivals, and portraits (single figures and groups) of tribal peoples, and several British military groups in the Naga Hills of Assam and Burma, [1880s]
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NAGA HILLS
Footnotes
Seemingly compiled either by a British officer of the 44th Gurkha Regiment, or a Colonial employee stationed in the Naga Hills, north-east India. There are several group portraits (sitters named in pencil) at Manipur, and amongst several of the Gurkhas an unsettling scene re-enacting the capture of a Naga native during the 1878-1880 Naga wars. Images include views of villages, houses (5 signed in the negative by De Hone, but all others in album unattributed), ruins, "heads outside Meloni... April, 1888", the harvest festival with participants in full ceremonial dress, and portraits of different tribal/regional types - on occasion beside an administrator ("Bungalow, Mokochung"). Includes Manipur, Dimapur, Kohima, Lungkan, Tankhul, Pholami, Ao region, and others. Most are in the Assam region, but some in modern Burma - including 3 images of Panthay men.