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
caption: Small boys having their customary free-for-all on the earth mound.
medium: photographs
location: Laisong
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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 1787:1-45
acquirer:
refnum: BT NO 1787:44
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Caption:Ho-hoing before the upper mpe.
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Caption:Drummers.
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Caption:Village headman.
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Caption:Procession to mpe at lower gate.
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Caption:Small boys throwing darts.
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Caption:The mpe.
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Caption:Young men throwing darts.
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Caption:Young men jumping at the hazoa.
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Caption:Putting the stone.
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Caption:Young men doing their hair outside the hangseoki; a fashionable wave is pressed into it while wet.
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Caption:Procession returning from lower mpe.
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Caption:Young men jumping at the hazoa; they land in a mound of soft earth.
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Caption:Young men jumping at the hazoa; they land in a mound of soft earth.
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Caption:Drummers.