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: Kabui Naga youth at Kambiron village. It was a cloth of this type, tufted with human hair, which led to the exposure of the human sacrifices at Kambiron and the religion instituted by Jadonang and his disciple Gaidiliu in 1929/30.
medium: photographs
person: JadonangGaidiliu
location: Kambiron
production:
form: 35mm negatives
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
date: 19.11.1938
note: information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: BT NO 601-603
seealso: Graham Bower, Naga Path p.45-46