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:

Nzemi (Maruong) Naga porters [at Makru]

medium:

photographs

ethnicgroup:

Maruong

location:

Makru R.

production:

form:	35mm negatives
person:	Graham Bower/ Ursula
date:	16.11.1938
note:	information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	BT NO 527-531

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Caption:Maruong is the name given by the Kabui Nagas to the Central Nzemi Nagas of NW Manipur and the North Cachar Hills. They are distinguished from the adjoining part-related tribes (the Northern Nzemi and the Lyengmai Nagas) and from the Kabui, by their dialect and dress.

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