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: wedding party arriving from another village
medium: photographs
production:
form: 35mm negatives
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
date: 1941-1942
note: information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: BT NO 1603-4
clip:
Caption:The old woman is "showing the bride the way".
clip:
Caption:The men of the party; the groom is on the right. Note the man with spear and shield bringing up the rear, the traditional armed escort between villages