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:

Khasi monolith set up over a human sacrifice near Cherrapunji. Sacrifices of this kind were occasionally made to ensure that the stone would remain upright.

medium:

photographs

keywords:

ritual

location:

Cherrapunji

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 521,522