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: Kabui Naga women making textiles, [Kokadan village]
medium: photographs
location: Kokaden (Kokadan)
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form: 35mm negatives
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
date: [15.1.1939]
note: information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: BT NO 893-899, 902-3
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Caption:close-up of heddles arrangement
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Caption:narrow back-strap loom
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Caption:Woman sewing together the strips of a girl's dance dress. This cloth, which is dark blue with white stripes and a deep rose-red border with lines of bright-coloured stitching, sometimes takes nearly a year to make. It is worn by unmarried girls as a dance dress, and by some of the richer ones as an everyday garment. This specimen is in the British Museum collection.
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Caption:A design is being delicately picked into place with a porcupine quill.
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