The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

diaries kept by Ursula Graham Bower on visits to Manipur and North Cachar between 1937 and 1940

caption: Kuki grave stone near Thalon
medium: diaries
location: Songsang
date: 5.12.1938
production:
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
acquirer:
person: private collection
text:
_(188)_In_ever_loving_and_cherished_memory_of
_____________TING_NEIKIM
____________devoted_wife_of
___________L._VUM_HO_Haokip
____________ROAD_MOHURRIR
_____She_is_the_daughter_of_MANG-
____KHO_LEN_chief_of_Songsang
_____village_who_is_the_purest
_____caste_among_singson_tribe
_____Her_marriage_price_is_30
___MITHUNS;_and_for_her_burial
___ceremony_Rs_140_was_spent.
____Being_born_in_1911_she_was
____attached_to_my_soul_in_1928.
____After_living_with_me_for
___10_years,_deeply_mourned,_sadly
___missed_by_me,_her_3_sons_and
____1_daughter._The_gloomy_date_24
___April_1938_11-40_mt_a.m._has_ten-
___derly_led_her_to_her_eternal
______heavenly_home.
___During_our_co-life_she_is
__ever_peaceful_to_all_neighbours.
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