‘Naga Scouts’, 1911 (c)
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1965-04-60-25
Description
‘Naga Scouts’, 1911 (c). Photograph from an album of 100 photographs taken by Capt Douglas Henry Randall Giffard, 8th Gurkha Rifles, India. Associated with the Abor Expedition, 1911-1912. The Nagas were a hill-tribe from the Assam-Burma border area. During the Abor Expedition of 1911-1912 they were valued greatly as scouts, porters and labourers, a role they were to play again during the Burma campaign in the Second World War.
Campaigns
India, Abor Expedition (1911-1912)
