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:

Portrait of Kaitzangzung, [owner of tarangkai house]

medium:

photographs

text:

This man was undoubtedly wealthy or he could not have performed such a major Feast of Merit. He seemed to be regarded with some reserve by the rest of the village and it was later suggested to me that he might be suspected of "black magic".

person:

Kaitzangzung/ of Majuron

location:

Majulon (Majuron)

production:

form:	35mm negatives
person:	Graham Bower/ Ursula
date:	[13.1.1939]
note:	information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	BT NO 840