The Nagas

naga objects C257.jpg Small basket standing on 4 wooden feet. The basketry twilled. Used for salted beans to provoke thirst. Angami. artefacts Angami dia.13 x h.7cm Angami 2:158 Hutton/ J.H. gift Univ...
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naga objects C258.jpg naga objects C1280.jpg naga objects C259.jpg Tailpiece, usually worn at lower part of back. Usually worn at dances. Sometimes contains human hair. artefacts 63cm, torso 11cm [not...
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naga objects C1281.jpg naga objects C260.jpg Tailpiece artefacts 52cm, head 12cm [not known] 2:161 Hutton/ J.H. gift University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge 1947 47.524a descripti...
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naga objects C261.jpg 'Tailpiece worn by Sema warriors and used for carrying pointed bamboo spikes (panji) for use as caltrops. Asapu (Hutton).' artefacts Sema 26.5 x 17cm Sema 2:161 Pawsey/ Sir Charl...
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naga objects C262.jpg Man's hip ornament made of buffalo horn and ornamented with long fringes of goat's hair dyed red and yellow. Black canework top. Worn by head-taker. Konyak, Wakching village. art...
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naga objects C263.jpg Shoulder ornament, aghuhu (enemies' teeth), of cane ornamented with cowries, red and yellow orchid straw and dog hair. artefacts 38 x 19cm Sema 2:166 Hutton/ J.H. gift University...
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naga objects C264.jpg Dao box (sheath for knife, sometimes called a sling) with tapes and horn toggle. artefacts Kalyo-Kengyu Sanglao 30 x 13 x 2cm, horn 17cm Kalyo-Kengyu Sanglao 2:167 Pawsey/ Sir Ch...
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naga objects C265.jpg naga objects C266.jpg A neckband of stamped copper, and large shell pendant worn over shoulder blades. Angami. artefacts Angami 29cm (shell. 16.8cm) Angami 2:168-169 Howell gift ...
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naga objects C267.jpg naga objects C268.jpg Skull with buffalo horns. Head of mixed Chang and Ao looted from a head-hunting village. The head when severed from the body is skinned and boiled in a pot;...
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naga objects C269.jpg "Deadman's rice strainer" made of [interlocking] bamboo leaves. Native name 'yempu shangku'. Chang Naga, on the borders of Konyak country; made by Ngaku, a Chang. [Unsigned comme...
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naga objects C270.jpg naga objects C271.jpg Body cloth of black or dark blue with red stripes with cowrie shells. Presumably the wearer had taken heads as well as giving feasts; 'asukeda-pi'. Given to...
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naga objects C272.jpg Man's body cloth, blue with red stripes and squares of red woven in, and broad white median stripe with elongated lozenges. Tobu make from Hakchang village, Chang. [Three strips ...
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naga objects C273.jpg Man's baldrick with groups of three cowrie shells sewn on it. ?Ao. artefacts Ao 81 x 23cm Ao 2:177 Hutton/ J.H. gift University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge ...
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naga objects C274.jpg Black cloth with bold yellow and orange stripes near margins. Body cloth worn by both men and women. [Four strips.] Western Angami. artefacts Angami <Western 163 x 106cm Angami (...
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naga objects C275.jpg Man's body cloth, red and blue with white streaks - 'tiger stripe'. [Coarse cloth. 1 piece.] Phom Naga. artefacts Phom 156 x 109cm Phom 2:179 Hutton/ J.H. gift University Museum ...
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naga objects C276.jpg naga objects C277.jpg Cloth of man who has done head-taking ceremonies, Suvangsu, red with narrow blue stripes and broad white median stripe with red lozenges. [Three strips.] No...
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naga objects C278.jpg Man's nettle fibre cloth. Buff with black stripes. [Four strips.] Angami, probably Khonoma area. artefacts Angami Khonoma 180 x 108cm Angami Khonoma 2:182 Howell gift University ...
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naga objects C279.jpg Rich man's cloth, woven in red cotton with white and blue stripes and fringe of same. [Three strips of cloth.] Konyak, Wanching village. artefacts Konyak Wanching 185 x 110cm Kon...
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naga objects C280.jpg Dark blue fringed cloth with bands of red woolwork and a red and yellow tassel in one corner of goat hair (red) and orchid (yellow). A bride's marriage cloth. [Three strips.] Sem...
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naga objects C281.jpg Body cloth of man who has given a full series of Feasts of Merit. Dark blue with red stripes woven in near edges and 4 broad white stripes with red and black ornament sewn in in ...
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naga objects C282.jpg Two baldricks, cotton with wool pattern. artefacts Angami 126 x 14cm (including tassels) Angami 2:186 [not known] gift University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridg...
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naga objects C283.jpg Men's body cloth, dark blue with 4 white stripes at each edge and red squares in middle. Over all are two human figures crudely outlined in cowrie shell. [Three strips.] Kalyo-Ke...
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naga objects C284.jpg Body cloth of man who has given full series of Feasts of Merit. Brown with black and white lines and narrow white bands embroidered in red and black. Konyak, Tamlu village. artef...
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naga objects C285.jpg Man's cloth, in carpet technique, black, white and red (faded), smooth on one side, knotted on the other. Konyak, Hruilu village (near Chen). artefacts Konyak Hruilu 165 x 92cm K...
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naga objects C286.jpg naga objects C287.jpg Body and shoulder cloth (large) with long tassel, which is thrown over left shoulder then under right arm. (Red squares are of dog's hair dyed with madder)....
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naga objects C288.jpg Lengta, worn over a belt, scrotum bag at end. Sema. artefacts Sema 41 x 14cm Sema 2:192 Hutton/ J.H. gift University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge 1943 43.518...
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naga objects C289.jpg Small red rectangular cloth with goat hair tassels at end. [A. West: Zemi] artefacts 33 x 27cm [Zemi] 2:193 [not known] gift University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Ca...
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naga objects C290.jpg Apron of black cloth covered with cowrie shells. [Reverse plain. Sewn onto a horizontal backbone of bamboo.] artefacts 41 x 31cm [not known] 2:194 Howell gift University Museum o...
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naga objects C291.jpg Black square apron with cowrie shells in small flower pattern and rosettes of dog hair. [Embroidered diamond decoration at top and bottom]. artefacts 48x45cm [not known] Hansjorg...
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naga objects C292.jpg Man's cane belt made of a strip of cane wound several times around the waist. Konyak, Longkhai village. artefacts Konyak Longkhai 27 x 20cm Konyak Longkhai 2:196 Furer-Haimendorf...
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naga objects C293.jpg 'Waistbelt with sling for dao worn by Sema Nagas' (Hutton). artefacts Sema belt 63cm, scabbard 19cm, tassel 36cm Sema 2:199 Pawsey/ Sir Charles R. gift University Museum of Archa...
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naga objects C294.jpg naga objects C295.jpg Man's bark belt worn wound round waist with two broader tails behind. Decorated with vertical stripes round body and men and animal designs on tails by grin...
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naga objects C296.jpg ?Waist belt - very old - ornamented with pear-shaped sections of white shell, also cowrie and other ground shells. Back of Chung country. [Three kinds of shells used. The decorat...
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naga objects C297.jpg Woman's belt of light woven cotton, with red embroidery at either end, and light fringe. (Sheko shing-hei.) Konyak, Wakching village. artefacts Konyak Wakching 155 x 12cm Konyak ...
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naga objects C298.jpg Three spears; detail of blades artefacts gift University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge descriptions derived from original source material unless in square bra...
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naga objects C299.jpg detail of two spear shafts artefacts gift University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge descriptions derived from original source material unless in square bracket...
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naga objects C300.jpg detail of two spear shafts artefacts gift University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge descriptions derived from original source material unless in square bracket...
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naga objects C301.jpg detail of four spear shafts artefacts gift University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge descriptions derived from original source material unless in square bracke...
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naga objects C302.jpg three spears artefacts gift University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise...
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naga objects C303.jpg naga objects C1282.jpg Large conical basket used by women for carrying rice. Konyak, Tang village. artefacts Konyak Tang 65cm Konyak Tang 2:227 Furer-Haimendorf 1936-1937 gift Un...
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naga objects C304.jpg Man's dark blue cloth apron ornamented with rows of lips of cowrie shells. At top 2 semicircles of bunches of red-dyed dog hair wrapped in yellow cactus straw. Brass disk suspend...
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naga objects C305.jpg Man's apron (dou) in navy blue cloth with three red and yellow horizontal stripes and red blanket stitch around edge. Worn tucked in front into cane belt. Konyak, Wakching villag...
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naga objects C306.jpg White cotton apron with 10 canes bound with black, pink and green wool, ending with white cotton tufts; lozenge pattern woven into top. [A. West: Angami] artefacts 58 x 29cm Anga...
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naga objects C307.jpg Angami apron - made of native cotton - the terminals and divisions bound with red and blue band. artefacts Angami 98cm Angami 2:233 Butler/ Capt. John 1869-1875 gift from Cotton,...
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naga objects C308.jpg naga objects C1283.jpg Cloak for wet weather, made of strips of the thin outer cuticle of a small bamboo, fastened to a net foundation. artefacts 99cm (height), 51cm (dia. at top...
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naga objects C309.jpg Woman's cloth with black and orange stripes on white, worn as skirt. [Four strips.] Angami. artefacts Angami 89x24cm 2:236 Hutton/ J.H. gift University Museum of Archaeology and ...
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naga objects C310.jpg Bridal skirt of dark blue cloth with white band at top, sewn with cowrie shells (Tsoga-mine) With a band of beadwork in middle for chief's daughter. ritual artefacts Sema 80 x 43...
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naga objects C311.jpg Man's body cloth. [Three strips.] artefacts Chang 179 x 120cm Chang Hansjorg Mayer: very fine 2:238 Mills/ J.P. gift University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge ...
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naga objects C312.jpg Coloured woven loin cloth. Ao, Mokokchung village. artefacts Ao Mokokchung 177 x 112cm Ao Mokokchung 2:239 Howell gift University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridg...
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naga objects C313.jpg Young woman's skirt, black with median white stripe, on either side of which and at margins is a red and blue line. [Three strips.] Angami &lt;Eastern. artefacts Angami <Eastern ...
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naga objects C314.jpg Woman's skirt, light blue with thin lines and squares of red (a variety of Subeti [the basic Ao skirt], see Mills 'Ao Nagas' p.39). Ao. [Two strips.] artefacts Ao 113 x 81cm Ao 3...
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naga objects C315.jpg Woman's cotton skirt of red and black stripes with broad white band at top (lakupichika) worn only by chief's daughters. [Two strips.] Sema. artefacts Sema 96 x 48cm Sema 3:2 Mil...
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naga objects C316.jpg Woman's skirt, dark blue with white lines and other ornament. [Three strips.] Kalyo-Kengyu. artefacts Kalyo-Kengyu 108 x 54cm Kalyo-Kengyu 3:3 Mills/ J.P. gift University Museum ...
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naga objects C317.jpg Basket, with lid. Woven cane on 4 legs. Kacha, imported by Angami when called Labu or Labu No [?]. artefacts Kacha Angami h. 39cm Kacha 3:4 Dixie/ Rev. A. Duncan gift Museum of M...
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naga objects C318.jpg Girl's basket, conical, made of closely interwoven strips of buff-coloured reed, strengthened by 5 vertical pieces and a rim of whole stems. A carrying strap made of split cane i...
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naga objects C319.jpg "Chunga", bamboo case for storing rice; kept in the house. It is a section of a large bamboo, a knot closing each end; through one a hole is made by which it is filled or emptied...
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naga objects C320.jpg Woman's carrying basket; the strap goes over the forehead. Made of interwoven strips of buff-coloured reed. Strengthened with a vertical framework, to 3 loops on which the carryi...
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naga objects C321.jpg Vegetable-fibre (rattan) plaited rat-trap, conical, having four thorny stems set along the inside. Probably Konyak. artefacts 46cm Konyak 3:9 Furer-Haimendorf 1936-1937 1944.As3....
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naga objects C322.jpg String bag with knots tied closely together. artefacts 26cm [not known] 3:10 purchase Museum of Mankind, London 1929 1929.4-15.66 1929.4-15.66 from Bryer, H.E. descriptions deriv...
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naga objects C323.jpg Iron headed arrows (socketted), with wooden shaft, in which leaf 'feather' is inserted through a split. For crossbow. Lengta [?] Naga. artefacts 34cm Lengta [?] 3:11 Hardcastle/ ...
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naga objects C324.jpg Working dao, Manipore. Single-edge iron head fixed into a rounded wooden handle, its end strengthened with an iron ferule. The Naga daos have one side flat, the other being level...
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naga objects C325.jpg Drinking horn, Angami. Hole at tip for carrying strap. artefacts Angami 71cm Angami 3:13 Hardcastle/ Major J. 1910-1913 1919.12-19.23 gift Museum of Mankind, London descriptions ...
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naga objects C326.jpg Bamboo vessel, with poker work pattern, bamboo handle attached with vegetable fibre. Chang. artefacts Chang 43.5cm Chang 3:14 gift Museum of Mankind, London 1954 1954.As7.51 from...
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naga objects C327.jpg Fly whisk consisting of a straight stem of circular section closely bound with copper wire, and a large tuft of white goat's hair. artefacts 83cm [not known] 3:15 gift Museum of ...
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naga objects C328.jpg Wooden cleft fire-stick, rattan thong. To make fire by 'sawing'. artefacts 31cm [not known] 3:16 Butters/ G. gift Museum of Mankind, London 1927 1927.3-5.1 descriptions derived f...
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naga objects C329.jpg [Animal harness of bamboo and hair.] artefacts frame 37 x 17cm [not known] 3:17 gift Museum of Mankind, London 1954 1954.As7.115 from the Wellcome Collection descriptions derived...
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naga objects C330.jpg Rake, formed of a section of bamboo, at one end divided and turned down to form the teeth, which are kept asunder and in position by bands of rattan. Angami. artefacts 72cm Angam...
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naga objects C331.jpg Axe, with wooden handle and iron blade, fastened in with strips of bark. Angami. artefacts 62cm Angami 3:19 Keatinge/ Col. R.H. gift Museum of Mankind, London 1879 +1064 descript...
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naga objects C332.jpg Hoe, with handle and spatulate iron blade, fastened on with bonds of rattan. Angami. artefacts Angami 41cm Angami 3:20 Keatinge/ Col. R.H. gift Museum of Mankind, London 1879 +10...
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naga objects C333.jpg Hoe with small iron head, the handle a simple branch, a wedge driven into the head end to expand it. "It is a very puny tool, but is their only agricultural implement" (collector...
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naga objects C334.jpg Iron hoe blade with socket to fit on haft. Kalyo-Kengyu. artefacts Kalyo-Kengyu 23cm Kalyo-Kengyu 3:22 gift Museum of Mankind, London 1954 1954.As7.90 from the Wellcome collectio...
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naga objects C335.jpg Axe, with wooden handle and iron blade with quadrangular tang; two bands of plaited rattan strengthen the handle near the blade. Manipur Nagas. artefacts Manipuri 61cm Manipuri 3...
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naga objects C336.jpg Human skull, lacking lower mandible; 2 horns attached by rattan straps passed through holes in cranium. with strips of yellow leaf in bunches; suspension cord of plaited fibres p...
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naga objects C337.jpg naga objects C338.jpg Composite basket, plaited bamboo with five carved wooden skulls, tufts of vegetable fibre and tusk; cotton band with designs in red, blue and yellow. Owner ...
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naga objects C339.jpg Head-hunter's composite basket; plaited vegetable fibres, monkey skull and tusk mounted on animal skin in centre; plaited strap with head-band; bunches of grass. Konyak. artefact...
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naga objects C340.jpg Chief's cane hat, covered with fur, dyed hair, goat horns, feathers, boar's tusks. Sibsagar District, Ao. clothing ceremonial artefacts Ao 38cm span Ao 3:28 Pridham/ M. gift Muse...
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naga objects C341.jpg Composite helmet; plaited vegetable fibre crown, bamboo brim, bone horns, suspended band of red hair. 'Tangkhul or Konyak' (Mills, J.P.). artefacts Tangkhul Konyak 66cm span Tang...
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naga objects C342.jpg naga objects C343.jpg Rain-cover made of a network of bamboo covered with palm leaf and covered externally by a close network of bamboo. Within is a loop to fasten it on the head...
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naga objects C344.jpg Woven cane carrying basket with bird beaks. artefacts 34cm [not known] 3:31-32 Pridham/ M. gift Museum of Mankind, London 1874 Q72.As.2058 descriptions derived from original sour...
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naga objects C345.jpg Woven cane satchel. artefacts Fitzadam-Ormiston/ G. 57cm (l), 32cm (w) [not known] 3:33 gift Museum of Mankind, London 1928 1928.3-15.14 from FitzAdam-Ormiston, Mrs E.M., in memo...
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naga objects C346.jpg Cane hat. artefacts h. 18cm [not known] 1874 Q72.As.2088 Hansjorg Mayer: non-Naga? 3:34 Pridham/ M. gift Museum of Mankind, London descriptions derived from original source mater...
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naga objects C347.jpg Composite head piece; bamboo band decorated on the outside with red and yellow plaited vegetable fibre, cowrie shells and 2 horns; from the centre is a piece of bone with hair at...
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naga objects C348.jpg Bear skin head circlet. Ao. artefacts Ao dia. 22cm Ao 3:37 purchase Museum of Mankind, London 1929 1929.4-15.7 from Bryer, H.E. descriptions derived from original source material...
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naga objects C308.jpg naga objects C1283.jpg Wooden model of board from a morung. Three human figures, one flanked by two birds, and an elephant in the centre; elephant and bird's tails painted white....
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naga objects C350.jpg Wood board carved in high relief with two pairs of human figures, fine hornbills, three animals, and a separate human head. Konyak, Wakching village. artefacts Konyak Wakching ca...
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naga objects C351.jpg naga objects C352.jpg naga objects C353.jpg Wood carving of a seated male figure, arms folded across knees; wood ornament bound with vegetable fibre against back of head; shredde...
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naga objects C354.jpg naga objects C355.jpg Rod with 3 grotesque human heads, with wood breastplate of wood and goat's hair, and tails of hair, tuft of hair on heads, beetle's wings, cowrie shells. ar...
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naga objects C356.jpg Carved wood head, tattoo pattern, goat's hair ear tufts, hole for putting on stick; 'used in war-dances, attaching to an elastic bamboo to swing up and down' (collector). Konyak....
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naga objects C357.jpg Wood carving of man's head showing tattoo. Konyak, Longkhai village. artefacts Konyak Longkhai 15.5cm Konyak Longkhai 3:47 Furer-Haimendorf 1936-1937 gift Museum of Mankind, Lond...
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naga objects C358.jpg naga objects C1285.jpg Wood carving of figures and animal and human head, "model of a carved morung post" (collector). artefacts 13cm Konyak 3:48 Furer-Haimendorf 1936-1937 gift ...
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naga objects C359.jpg Wooden tally stick, notches cut at one end; Zemi Naga, Golomi village; "used to keep count of number of households to which young men of morung must distribute shares of pork at ...
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naga objects C360.jpg "Hip ornament with two carved figures and dyed goat's hair, worn only by headtaker (ahai)" (collector). Konyak, Chongwe village. artefacts Konyak Aopao (Chongwe) 26cm Konyak Aopa...
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naga objects C361.jpg Wood ornament of two human heads, with necklace of beads. "Worn by men who have taken two heads" (collector). Konyak, Chi village. artefacts Konyak Chi 28.5cm Konyak Chi 3:51 Fur...
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naga objects C362.jpg naga objects C363.jpg "Head-taker's hip ornament with human hair,the horns represent serow horns (Sha-mai)" (collector). Konyak, Chongwe village. artefacts Konyak Aopao (Chongwe)...
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naga objects C364.jpg Left: carving of sitting man, "breast ornament worn by the brother of the Ang, Bei-Shon, Konyak, Shiong village" (collector), on bead chain. Right: "carved wood head worn by a Ta...
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naga objects C365.jpg Five carved wooden heads in dark wood, the centre one with bead ear pendants. artefacts 10cm (max.) [not known] 3:56 purchase Museum of Mankind, London 1982 1982.As.19nn from Gel...
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naga objects C366.jpg Three wooden carvings, two figures and a head. artefacts 30cm (max.) [not known] 3:58 purchase Museum of Mankind, London 1982 1982.As.19nn from Gelpey, Mrs Judy descriptions deri...
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naga objects C367.jpg Carved wooden man squatting [base not original]. artefacts 37cm [not known] 3:59 purchase Museum of Mankind, London 1982 1982.As.19nn from Gelpey, Mrs Judy descriptions derived f...
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naga objects C368.jpg Two wooden figures with skirts, joined. artefacts 36cm [not known] 3:60 purchase Museum of Mankind, London 1982 1982.As.19nn from Gelpey, Mrs Judy descriptions derived from origi...
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naga objects C369.jpg [Two separate carved male figures, base not original.] artefacts 40cm [not known] 3:61 purchase Museum of Mankind, London 1982 1982.As.19nn from Gelpey, Mrs Judy descriptions der...
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