The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

black and white photographs taken by J. Shakespear

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caption: Forked posts, set up to commemorate the performance of feasts of merit, standing on stone platform in front of dwelling house. This type of post is typical of the Ukhrul area. Tangkhul, Lambui village.
medium: photographs
ethnicgroup: Tangkhul
location: Ukhrul Lumbui (Lambui)
production:
person: Shakespear/ J.
note: documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text within square brackets
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies, London
refnum: 208/SOAS/Shakespear
seealso: T.C. Hodson, The Naga Tribes of Manipur, pp. 181-182