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:

ritual pounding for feast of merit, Phirre village. [Women of the feaster's house carry out ritual pounding of rice and jobs tears at first light on the morning of the main part of the feast]

medium:

photographs

location:

Phire-Ahire (Phirre)

ethnicgroup:

[Northern Sangtam JS]

production:

form:	celluloid negative
person:	Stonor/ C.R.
date:	12.1947

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	SR.757
note:	Documentation based on index in Pitt Rivers Museum Archive

seealso:

Stonor, 'Feasts of Merit', plate 1 fig.2

note:

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