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:

Young men and girls of Laisong village dancing

medium:

photographs

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 1409-1417

clip:

Caption:Shows the first figure of a very well known dance, one line remaining stationary while the other (visible in the background, right, moves round.

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Caption:Second figure. The first line (left background) remains standing while the second line dances round.

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Caption:Later figure. The dancers have formed a circle and are dancing round in quick time.

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Caption:Girls dancing in quick time