The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

black & white photographs taken by Ursula Graham Bower between 1937 and 1946

caption: Christian Tangkhul Nagas, Khunthak village. Christians were distinguished by their European hair-style.
medium: photographs
location: Khunthak
production:
form: 35mm negatives
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
date: 12.11.1937
note: information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: BT NO 25,26,27,29
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Caption:Native hair style (left & centre); the silver ear-rings worn by the man on the left are made of silver rupees melted down.
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