The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

black & white photographs taken by Ursula Graham Bower between 1937 and 1946

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caption:

Magulong men in Haflong with hair-tufted shield, VJ Day

caption:

The shield-bearer on the left has taken a head and carries his shield by right. The man on the right carries his by courtesy only, for the entertainment, but wears a loin cloth in the old Nzemi fashion, now obsolete, twisted round the waist with one end hanging down in front of the genitals.

medium:

photographs

keywords:

costume head-taking

location:

Magulong Haflong

production:

form:	35mm negatives
person:	Graham Bower/ Ursula
date:	16.3.1946
note:	information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	BT NO 2046