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: Dragging gravestone, Laisong village
medium: photographs
keywords: Hgangigenna
location: Laisong
production:
form: 35mm negatives
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
date: [1.1941]
note: information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: BT NO 1379-1393
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Caption:The gravestone, still lashed on sledge on which it was dragged, lying outside a house
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Caption:Men who dragged the stone, ho-hoing outside the house of the man for whom they dragged it
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Caption:Stone and sledge, showing lashing
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Caption:A large gravestone set in timber frame ready for carrying
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Caption:Stone-carrying in progress
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Caption:Stone-carrying in progress
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Caption:Stone lashed to sledge
seealso: Graham Bower, Naga Path, p.99Mills, Lhota Nagas, p.142 et seq