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: Chiru dancers at Kokadan
medium: photographs
location: Kokaden (Kokadan)
production:
form: 35mm negatives
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
date: 10.1.1939
note: information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: BT NO 812-4, 817-20
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Caption:Chirus allow married women to dance; however, Kabui wives, I was told [except] on one or two exceptional occasions, never dance.
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