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: Tangkhul Naga's funerary monument, Chingjaroi Khulen village. Wooden figures represent bears, tigers and other beasts which the dead man is claimed to have killed.
medium: photographs
location: Chingjaroi Khulen
production:
form: 35mm negatives
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
date: 21.2.1939
note: information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: BT NO 1027
seealso: Hodson, Naga Tribes of Manipur, p.190