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:

Kukis from Mombi village. This very tough village instigated the Kuki rebellion 1917-19. In 1944 the Kukis involved in this rebellion pretended to support the British but defected to the Japanese.

medium:

photographs

keywords:

World War II

location:

Mombi

production:

form:	35mm negatives
person:	Graham Bower/ Ursula
date:	[1.1938-3.1938]
note:	information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	BT NO 423

seealso:

Shakespear, Assam Rifles, p.209