Grata Somare and Leonardo Vigorell i conduct research on indi­genous populations on behalf of Museums and cultural Institutions. They have published studies on North-American Indians, on Sub-saharian and Himalayan populations. They direct a Laboratory of Anthropological Research and Documentation, which coordinates the activities of a group of international specialists in the various sectors of ethnographic-anthropological research.

M . Alemchiba Ao is the Director of the Naga Institute of Art and Culture and of the National Museum of Kohima, Nagaland. He is actively engaged in the preservation of the traditional cultural patrimony of the Nagas and is the author of studies on the history and the culture of his homeland, being the most renown expert.

Binod Behari Goswami has been thejoint Director of the Anthro­pological Survey of India until 1991 and a Visiting Fellow in the In­dian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He is known for his authoritative contribution on the people of Mi -zoram, Nagaland, Manipur and Assam.

Toshi Wongtong, is a Yimchunger Naga from Tuensang District. He is at present engaged in a Ph. D . programme at the Jawaharlal Nehru University of New Delhi.

Giul io Zaccarelli, is a collaborator of the International Centre of Studies for Preservation and Restoration (ICCROM - Rome). He is also responsible for projecting and preparing exhibitions.

Franco Zaina, in recent years has dedicated himself to museum photography and to a definition of new solutions for the photo­graphy of ethnographic material.

On the cover:

S.K. Sanyal - Side view of a young Angami - 1951. The photograph belongs to the Anthropological Survey of India - Government of India - Calcutta - and has been reproduced by courtesy of this Institute.

THE NAGAS

THE NAGAS Disciplined Forms of Beauty

Grata Somare Leonardo Vigorelli

with contributions by

M. Alemchiba Ao Binod Behari Goswami Toshi Wongtong Giulio Zaccarelli

Photographs by

Franco Zaina

G A L L E R I A L O R E N Z E L L I

A N T H R O P O L O G I C A L PAPERS

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This initiative was provided by the kind patronage of the following Institutions:

the Ministry of Tourism, Rome the Embassy of Italy in India, New Delhi the Superior Institute for the Middle and the Far East (ISMEO), Rome the Department of Indian and Far Eastern Studies of the University of Venice, Venice the Direction of the National Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome

The collection here presented is a result of a combination of some historical collections of French-Swiss origin, several objects made available by Mr. Jerry Bock and others acquired during this research. The Direction of the Galleria Lorenzelli thanks Mr. Bock for having contributed to the success of this initiative with his usual professionality and courtesy.

Consolidation and preservation, of the objects by Gianpaolo Nadalini and Giulio Zaccarelli, Bergamo.

Location Photographs taken in 1991 by Massimo Bronzoni, Leonardo Vigorelli and Franco Zaina, Bergamo.

Maps and drawings by Giulio Zaccarelli, Bergamo.

Graphical project by Grata Somare and Leonardo Vigorelli, Laboratorio di Ricerca e di Documentazione Antropologica, Bergamo.

Translation by Eva Schultz Muzio, Milan.

Revision of the texts by Gregory Santo Arena, Bergamo.

Project and layout of the exhibition by Francesca Donati, Raffaella Guazzoni and Giulio Zaccarelli, Milan.

Copyright Galleria Lorenzelli © Bergamo, Italy, Settembre 1992