The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

16mm colour film taken by Ursula Graham Bower between 1940 and 1944

caption: Hgangi festival, Laisong
medium: films
ethnicgroup: Zemi
location: Laisong
production:
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
date: 1.1941
acquirer:
refnum: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
clip:
Caption:wooden image ('mpe') is carried in
clip:
Caption:crowd waiting outside morung
clip:
Caption:throwing darts at a wooden image ('mpe')
clip:
Caption:crowd of men and children
clip:
Caption:men beating drums and cymbals
clip:
Caption:men beating drums and cymbals
clip:
Caption:children throwing darts
clip:
Caption:men in the crowd with darts
clip:
Caption:men throwing darts
clip:
Caption:'mpe' with darts hitting it