DAMANT, Guybon Henry: essay on tribes of North Eastern India

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1446 MS 39
Held at	: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.therai.org.uk/ ›
Full title	: DAMANT, Guybon Henry: essay on tribes of North Eastern India
Date(s)	: c1900
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 item
Name of creator(s)	: Damant | Guybon Henry | 1846-1879 | colonial administrator and orientalist

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1846; educated, Christ's College, Cambridge; Assistant Commissioner of Kachar, India, 1876; Deputy Commissioner of the Garo Hills, India, 1877; Political Officer of the Naga Hills, India; died 1879.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Annotated typescript essay taken from the papers of Guybon Henry Damant, Political Officer of the Naga Hills, entitled 'The wild tribes of north eastern India' edited with a foreword by G M Godden, c 1900.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Single item

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Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

Collection level description available in the Institute's reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
May 2008