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: Hgangi festival, Laisong village [6th day]
medium: photographs
location: Laisong
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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 1418:1-2, 5-8, 10-23
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Caption:Throwing darts at the wooden images (mpe)
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Caption:Drummer
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Caption:Spectators
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Caption:Mpe images mounted on their stands
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Caption:Mpe images mounted on their stands
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Caption:The small boys, who begin, throwing darts at the mpe
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Caption:The small boys, who begin, throwing darts at the mpe
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Caption:Drummers in gala dress before the lower mpe, at the bottom of the street
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Caption:Crowd before the lower mpe
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Caption:Throwing darts at the lower mpe
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Caption:Young men throwing darts
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Caption:Ritual jumping at the hazoa
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Caption:Putting the stone
seealso: Betts, Village Organisation, p.111-6