The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

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caption:

Merai-pung, second headman of Tuinem village. He wears the official scarlet blanket awarded by the Government to headmen and official interpreters as a badge of office. He follows the local Tangkhul fashion of brushing up the front hair and tying it back with a cloth.

medium:

photographs

keywords:

ornament dobashis

person:

Merai-pung/ of Tuinem

location:

Tuinem

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 33