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: Namkiabuing with spear and shield He wears his cloths in the old war dress way, the cloths round the waist being intended for protection of the abdomen.
medium: photographs
keywords: war dress
person: Namkiabuing
production:
form: 35mm negatives
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
date: [1940 late July or August]
note: information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: BT NO 1281,7