Scope and Contents 152 x 107 mm. Showing groups of the characteristic carved wooden headstones, with a Chin man standing in the foreground: 'The memorial erected in the North to departed Chiefs consists of a thick plank of hard wood with ordinarily the head of a man carved on the top, with a spike protruding from the skull. The head represents the deceased, and on the plank are carved men, women, children, animals of all sorts, gongs, beads, guns and so on ... The carving is rough and none are likely now...

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102 x 147 mm. Full length portrait of a Chin chief armed with a rifle.

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92 x 149 mm. Full length portrait of two Chin chiefs.

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153 x 108 mm. Showing an open-ended Chin house, with the thatched roof supported by a thick carved pole connected to a cross-piece.

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149 x 111 mm. A closer view (than the preceding print) of the entrance to the house, showing more detail on the carved supporting pole.

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108 x 150 mm. Portrait of three Chin warriors squatting in long grass.

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152 x 103 mm. A slightly out of focus group portrait of Europeans, probably taken at Fort Haka on the same occasion as the preceding print.

Scope and Contents 153 x 113 mm. A view looking over the corrugated iron roofs of the military post towards a mist filled valley. Built on the site of the village of Toklaing during the Chin disturbances of 1889, the fort became one of the headquarters for British military activity in the Chin Hills. In its early days its defensive position was not strong:'The fort was in reality no fort at all, but consisted of houses, scattered on the side of a hill and surrounded by an abattis of kaing-brush and...

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149 x 101 mm. View from the hillside above looking down on the military compound and barracks. Haka was the seat of the chiefs of Chin peoples and consisted of two villages, Kolun and Kotar. Situated in the Southern Chin Hills midway between Minkin and Yokwa, Haka was occupied during the Chin-Luchai Campaign on February 14, 1850, and became the headquarters for operations in the southern part of the Chin country.

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144 x 103 mm. View looking down on the fort at a slightly later date (than the preceding print) with more buildings erected, and a more substantial earthworks surrounding the compound.

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279 x 218 mm. View of the Hankow waterfront, with sampans in the foreground and steamers moored at the wharves and piers beyond. Hankow is situated some 600 miles from Shanghai at the confluence of the Hankow and Yangtsze Rivers and was opened to foreign trade in 1861.

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148 x 102 mm. A view looking across the Myittha River towards the houses of the village of Kan in the Chin hills. A footbridge crosses the river at the left of the print.

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151 x 109 mm. View looking over the Chin village built on a scrub covered hillside.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

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153 x 110 mm. Showing the thatched houses of the village spread out across the hillside. Rawvan was situated on the Kan-Haka mule track, eight miles south-east of Yokwa. The military post is high on the hill in the right background.

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150 x 105 mm. Showing a group of military officers playing tennis, probably at Fort Haka.

Scope and Contents 147 x 108 mm. Showing two wooden crosses mounted on cairns with the following inscriptions carved in blocks of wood beneath: 'Lieut. P.A. James R.E. killed in action at Thetta 2nd Jan 1891 C.H.P. Wetherall A.S.P. [Assistant Superintendent of Police] shot near Yokwa 21st Decr. 1890'Wetherall was killed by the Thetta Baungshes in December and James was killed while a...

Scope and Contents 152 x 112 mm. A view looking down on the rest house, a corrugated iron hut with thatched roof, with valleys and hills beyond. With porters and pack mules on the path in the foreground. The Chin village of Yokwa lies about 30 miles south-east of Haka, and was reached by the Kan-Haka mule track:'Yokwa is the chief village of the tribe and was once strongly fortified, but the stockades are now in ruins. Water is plentiful and there is good camping-ground just below the village on the...

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1 sheet. See also RCMS 65/3/3 Relating to Siam.