Collection of forty-eight photogravure plates depicting the author and natives encountered while traveling the region, prepared for Hutton's two books of 1921 "The Sema Nagas" and "The Angami Nagas."
Various locations in Nepal and Tibet: c. 1920. 48 etched copper photogravure plates mounted to wooden blocks (various sizes, largest 225 x 165 mm). Most with steel letterpress captioning blocks present, and printed paper labels. Condition: some wear and soiling from inking. Yorkshire born John Henry Hutton joined the Indian Civil Service in 1907 and spent most of his career in Assam, a region in north-eastern India at the foot of the Himalayas and the Naga Hills. Appointed Director of Ethnography for the area in 1920, and encouraged by Henry Balfour, the notable anthropologist curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford, Hutton began to travel the region, seeking out unvisited Naga territories and painstakingly documenteing what he saw in diaries, wax-cylinder recordings, and photographs. His two important monographs on the Angami and the Sema peoples, published in 1921, earned him a D.Sc from Oxford, and during his travels Hutton amassed an important collection of Naga artifacts which he later donated to the Pitt Rivers. Hutton retired from India in 1935. hutton's photography constitutes the first western imagery of previously unknown nepalese people and places. In his preface, Hutton writes, "The account of the Semas given in this book has been compiled … during an eight years' acquaintance with them, during which I have learnt to speak the language fairly fluently and have been brought into contact with the life of the individual, the family, and the community more or less continuously and from many angles." Retiring from civil service in 1936, Hutton spent much of the rest of his life as the William Wyse Chair of social anthropolgy at Cambridge University. The plates in this interesting collection depict hutton's himalayan camps, lhasa, cheetas and eguanas, and numerous views of the native nepalese, their environments and majestic mountain peaks.
Collection of forty-eight photogravure plates depicting the author and natives encountered while traveling the region, prepared for Hutton's two books of 1921 "The Sema Nagas" and "The Angami Nagas."
Various locations in Nepal and Tibet: c. 1920. 48 etched copper photogravure plates mounted to wooden blocks (various sizes, largest 225 x 165 mm). Most with steel letterpress captioning blocks present, and printed paper labels. Condition: some wear and soiling from inking. Yorkshire born John Henry Hutton joined the Indian Civil Service in 1907 and spent most of his career in Assam, a region in north-eastern India at the foot of the Himalayas and the Naga Hills. Appointed Director of Ethnography for the area in 1920, and encouraged by Henry Balfour, the notable anthropologist curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford, Hutton began to travel the region, seeking out unvisited Naga territories and painstakingly documenteing what he saw in diaries, wax-cylinder recordings, and photographs. His two important monographs on the Angami and the Sema peoples, published in 1921, earned him a D.Sc from Oxford, and during his travels Hutton amassed an important collection of Naga artifacts which he later donated to the Pitt Rivers. Hutton retired from India in 1935. hutton's photography constitutes the first western imagery of previously unknown nepalese people and places. In his preface, Hutton writes, "The account of the Semas given in this book has been compiled … during an eight years' acquaintance with them, during which I have learnt to speak the language fairly fluently and have been brought into contact with the life of the individual, the family, and the community more or less continuously and from many angles." Retiring from civil service in 1936, Hutton spent much of the rest of his life as the William Wyse Chair of social anthropolgy at Cambridge University. The plates in this interesting collection depict hutton's himalayan camps, lhasa, cheetas and eguanas, and numerous views of the native nepalese, their environments and majestic mountain peaks.
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