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: Bungalow of President of Manipur State Durbar, Imphal, Manipur. These bungalows were built some time after the 1891 uprising and were not earthquake proof. The roofs were tiled and extremely heavy and upon the least suspicion of an earthquake it was customary to evacuate them with some rapidity.
medium: photographs
location: Imphal
production:
form: 35mm negatives
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
date: 11.1937
note: information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: BT NO 145