The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database
  1. black & white photographs taken by Ursula Graham Bower between 1937 and 1946
    Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Laisong N information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets photographs Dragging gravestone,.. Laisong village photographs Hgangi genna Laisong 35mm negatives Graham Bower Ursula N information based on catalogue compiled by ..
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  2. black & white photographs taken by Ursula Graham Bower between 1937 and 1946
    Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford naga bower P52961.jpg naga bower P52961... jumping at the hazoa and putting the stone at the hgangi festival at the winter solstice photographs genna Laisong 35mm negatives Graham Bower Ursula 1941-01-01:..jpg 35mm negatives BT NO 1394-97 genna Laisong ..
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  3. manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters
    ..23 Khonoma head-taker's model man notes genna Khonoma Archer W... Khonoma all refused to carve and sell one saying it would weaken the Khel in war 'to sell a man' - it was genna to 'make a man' for anyone not of the Khel - the object is to get heads - not to lose them - parting with a little ..
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  4. manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters
    .. Previous 80 carved human figures notes genna Shankok Archer W... Next R66046 R66046 Previous R66044 R66044 genna 1946-01-01 Shankok said - genna to carve a human figure except for a morung or for a dead man - 'it is risking someone's life' - ' to carve a figure for someone else is not only wrong..
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  5. manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters
    1946-01-01:1948-12-31 12:13 Chizami (Chizema) gates at Chizema village notes japs genna Angami Eastern Chizami (Chizema) Archer W... 3 are carved - genna to carve women's breasts on the gate... Previous Angami Eastern 80 japs genna 1946-01-01 E... 3 are carved - genna to carve women's breasts on ..
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  6. manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters
    1946-01-01:1948-12-31 12:15 Losami worship of village gate notes thevo genna Angami Eastern Losami Archer W... genna to put mithan horns on the gate... Previous Angami Eastern 80 thevo genna 1946-01-01 E... genna to put mithan horns on the gate...
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  7. manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters
    .. Previous 80 village gate notes genna Stonor C... Chezimi - observed a genna because a branch of the tree by the Keza - gate has broken off and fallen. Next R66074 R66074 Previous R66072 R66072 genna 1946-01-01 C... Chezimi - observed a genna because a branch of the tree by the Keza - gate has ..
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  8. manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters
    Tsotonoma khel 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 Kohima 12:37 notes Next erection of a new village gate Archer W... Previous 80 erection of a new village gate notes genna Tsotonoma khel Kohima Archer W... Next R66090 R66090 Previous R66088 R66088 genna 1946-01-01 Between the dragging of the gate and its actual..
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  9. manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters
    .. Previous 80 dragging in a new village gate notes genna Tsotonoma khel Kohima Archer W... Genna to touch any of the thorns or bushes. Next R66093 R66093 Previous R66091 R66091 genna 1946-01-01 The gate hewn high upon the mountain - then roughly shaped - the huge mithan horns were cut to pattern -..
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  10. manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters
    .. Previous 80 Puchatsuma khel visit Jakhama notes warriors genna Puchatsuma khel Kohima Zhakhama (Jakhama) 1947-02-23:.. white cotton balls in the ear - dazzling colours - genna for a stranger to cross the line,..jpg Next R66099 R66099 Previous R66097 R66097 warriors genna 1947-02-23:.. white ..
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  11. typescript - J.H. Hutton's tour diary in the Naga Hills
    1921-09-21:1921-10-12 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Inkyo Chulin R. Shinjol (Sinjol) Next Description of a difficult march to Inkyo and the desertion and decay of the village tours genna Inkyo Chulin R... Previous 8 genna 1921-09-30:..
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  12. typescript - J.H. Hutton tour diary in the Naga Hills
    .. burning of Kelargim site and request to exchange land between villages tours genna Yang Khulen (Chekema) Dzuku R... They said that when this parcel of land got burnt their village had to observe genna for three days as they owned the land and it was the abode of a deity... Thus Pulomi would own ..
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