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 naga bower P53515.jpg naga bower P53515.jpg naga bower P53515.jpg nagabowerP53515.jpg nagabowerP53515.jpg Magulong men in Haflong with hair-tufted shield, VJ Day The shield-bearer on the left has taken a head and carries his shield by right. The man on the right..
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  2. black & white photographs taken by Ursula Graham Bower between 1937 and 1946
    Khutuing of Magulong Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Haflong information based on catalogue compiled by photographer unless in square brackets 1946-03-16:1946-03-16 photographs Portrait of Khutuing, headman of Magulong, VJ celebration Caption:Khutuing was a man of immense character and close ..
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  3. manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters
    1946-01-01:1948-12-31 15:3 Chizami (Chizema) Pfutsero house carving notes head-taking ancestors japs tallies Angami Eastern Chizami (Chizema) Pfutsero Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 15:3 E. Angami, Chizema, Pfutsero. Wooden heads on house front - usually only when a man had taken at least 5 ..
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  4. manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters
    Meheni Angami Evige Angami 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 Losami 9:2 notes Next grave effigies Archer W.G. Previous Angami Eastern 80 grave effigies notes head-taking tallies Meheni Angami Evige Angami Angami Eastern Losami Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 9:2 E. Angami, Losami. A tradition of putting up ..
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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 9:3 Kekrima Pfutsero Losami grave effigies notes head-taking Kekrima Pfutsero Losami Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 9:3 Kekrima - no tradition of grave effigies. Pfutsero & Losami - traditions and practice of putting up the figures - but now extinct since no longer any ..
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  6. manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters
    Choie Angami Shenzo Angami Vetzore Angami Sahi Angami 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 Ketsaovoma (Ketsapomi) 9:6 notes Next grave effigies Archer W.G. Previous Angami Eastern 80 grave effigies notes japs seduction head-taking feast of merit Choie Angami Shenzo Angami Vetzore Angami Sahi Angami Angami Eastern..
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  7. manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters
    1946-01-01:1948-12-31 9:7 Pfutsero grave effigies notes head-taking Angami Eastern Pfutsero Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 9:7 E. Angami. Pfutsero. No warrior's effigies because it is 70 years since head-taking was stopped. Of recent years no warriors who were entitled to effigies - no heads, no..
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  8. manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters
    1946-01-01:1948-12-31 12:19 Pfutsero gates at Pfutsero village notes head-taking mithan Angami Eastern Pfutsero Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 12:19 E. Angami. Pfutsero. Gates: 1. 30 heads - 2 mithan heads 2. 21 heads - 2 mithan heads 3. 21 heads - 1 mithan head one figure of a small man (no ..
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  9. typescript - J.H. Hutton's tour diary in the Naga Hills
    1923-03-23:1923-05-01 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Chinglong Next An apprehensive reception at Chinglong tours head-taking Chinglong 1923-04-21:1923-04-21 Hutton J.H. 1923-03-23:1923-05-01 Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Hutton Ms. Box 2 21st To Chinglong. A really fine and hot day. ..
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  10. typescript - J.H. Hutton's tour diary in the Naga Hills
    Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Detailed description of Sangpurr and the hostile reception received there tours village expansion raiding drum houses morungs stones spirits head-taking Chingmak Ongli Semas Yakko Sangpurr Zungki R. Alam Youkhao Panso Tsohyemung R. Tuensang Chingmiren (Chingmirem)..
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  11. typescript - J.H. Hutton's tour diary in the Naga Hills
    Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Visit to the new chief of Kukishe; description of his house and his father's grave tours coolies throwing sticks porcupine beliefs concerning animals head-taking riots wood carving conch shell ornament house, interior tribal similarities arrow boys' spear Nikhui ..
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  12. typescript - J.H. Hutton's tour diary in the Naga Hills
    Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Various cases and disputes; descriptions of Yazuthu and Yezashimi and their inhabitants; mixed tribal area tours peace negotiations war transfrontier disputes ritual head-taking erythrina trees iron gourds womens' tattoo leggings tribal comparison Y-posts house-..
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  13. miscellaneous papers, notebooks and letters on Nagas by Ursula Graham Bower, 1937-1947
    Namkia private collection 1937-01-01:1946-12-31 notes Next 'How Men learned to Fight' - myth Graham Bower Ursula Previous Zemi 27 'How Men learned to Fight' - myth notes head-taking Namkia Zemi Graham Bower Ursula 1937-01-01:1946-12-31 private collection Once upon a time a girl went to fetch water,..
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