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:

Magulong dance party, returning from Haflong, Laisong camp

medium:

photographs

person:

Lungchiwang/ of Magulong

location:

Haflong Magulong Laisong

production:

form:	35mm negatives
person:	Graham Bower/ Ursula
date:	3.1946
note:	information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets

acquirer:

person:	Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum:	BT NO 2052:1-9

clip:

Caption:Young runners from the fell race arrive.

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Caption:Young dancers dressing. The youth on the right is Lungchiwang, subsequently my adopted son, and one of our party in the Subansiri area.

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Caption:Magulong dancers. The man smeared with white represented an Indian sadhu. Magulong were the only Nzemi I mever met who included comic turns in their dance repertoire. The dance lasted all night by firelight.

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Caption:The Magulong party breakfasting next morning before leaving.

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Caption:Magulong singing goodbye in the dawn to my husband and myself.