The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

miscellaneous papers, notebooks and letters on Nagas by Ursula Graham Bower, 1937-1947

caption:

salt

medium:

notes

person:

Namkia

ethnicgroup:

Zemi

location:

Semkhor

production:

person:	Graham Bower/ Ursula
date:	1937-1946

acquirer:

person:

private collection

text:

Once, too, the Nagas got no bazaar salt, but got the brine from Semkhor well, and either they or Semkhor (if that village existed then - this point is not clear) made salt. Quite a small cake was worth a lot of money, and it had to be very sparingly used.

text:

N.I.

refnext:

refprev: