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:

Portrait of Khutuing, headman of Magulong, VJ celebration

medium:

photographs

keywords:

head-taking

person:

Khutuing/ of Magulong

location:

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 2048,9

clip:

Caption:Khutuing was a man of immense character and close personal friend of myself and my husband. Here he wears a woman's skirt for his part in the entertainment, but in his ears are the long locks of hair from the Kuki head he took as a young man.

clip:

Caption:(close-up)