The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

black and white photograph taken by C.R. Stonor, 1946-1948

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caption:

men's night dance, performed at Chimongrr village. [A slow, hopping dance, with all dancers fully armed, is carried out the evening before the main part of the feast of merit. The dance shown was reproduced in the daytime]

medium:

photographs

location:

Chimongre (Chimongrr) [Chimonger JS]

ethnicgroup:

[Northern Sangtam JS]

production:

form:	celluloid negative
person:	Stonor/ C.R.
date:	1.1948

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	SR.745
note:	Documentation based on index in Pitt Rivers Museum Archive

seealso:

Stonor, 'Feasts of Merit among the Northern Sangtam Tribe of Assam', plate 1 fig. 1

note:

text in square brackets is taken from illustrations in Stonor's article, 'Feasts of Merit among the Northern Sangtam'