IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1446 MS 39
Held at: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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 AND 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
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: May 2008