The Nagas

naga objects C583.jpg naga objects C584.jpg Cane fish trap, thabaktapan, with narrow entrance spike to prevent fish from coming out. Ao, Changki village. artefacts Ao Changki 22cm Ao Changki 4:140-141...
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naga objects C585.jpg Fish-catching basket or scoop, hok sem. artefacts 44cm 4:143 Peal/ S.E. purchase Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1897 1897.67.55 descriptions derived from original source material unl...
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naga objects C586.jpg Implement for scooping out semi-stupified (poisoned) fish, made of split bamboo splayed out and lined with thorny calamus midrib along each slip of the bamboo. S. Sangtam, Sangpu...
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naga objects C587.jpg Cane fish trap, nokharipen, of oval barrel form closed at the ends, with 2 rectangular openings at the side set with spikes to prevent egress of the fish. Ao, Changki village. ar...
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naga objects C588.jpg naga objects C589.jpg Rice beer jug of bamboo with mouth cut at a slant, the upper node with hole cut in it on the lip side of the vessel. Cortex is very thick and 2 standing and...
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naga objects C590.jpg Large rice beer jug of bamboo with burnt-out mouth, and upper node perforated with a small hole at the opposite end from the tip. The cortex is thick and carved in high relief wi...
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naga objects C591.jpg Drink carrier of bamboo closed by nodes at both ends. The upper node has a small perforation. At the sides are two lugs perforated for a carrying strap. The front is carved in re...
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naga objects C592.jpg Pair of ceremonial drinking vessels of bamboo with incised zigzag line patterns covering the outer surface. Rice-beer is put into both vessels, and the spout of the lower one is ...
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naga objects C593.jpg Drinking vessel of bamboo from the Chang village of Yempong, which belonged to Thangpong. The figure carved in bold relief on the front represents Thangso of Chingmei who had tak...
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naga objects C594.jpg Man's drinking horn made of a small mithan horn with a serow horn at the tip and two small horns of wood, one on each side of it, with a band of plaited cane strip hung with (?on...
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naga objects C595.jpg naga objects C596.jpg Large bamboo drinking mug, used by successful head-taker, carved with human figures and elephants in high relief. Made by Kaolun, a Phom. Phom. artefacts Ka...
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naga objects C597.jpg Bamboo drinking chunga used by Lhota for Oyantsoa [genna] and left on the site of a ceremony in the jungle. Only those who have erected stones may smoke their chunga in a pattern...
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naga objects C598.jpg Large drinking vessel of bamboo with a carved figure of warrior carrying a 'head' in high relief. Phom. artefacts Phom 40cm Phom 4:158 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxfor...
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naga objects C599.jpg Length of growing bamboo tied to produce the constricted 'waist' for a type of drinking vessel. Konyak. artefacts Konyak 67cm Konyak 4:160 Hutton/ J.H. 11.1926 gift Pitt Rivers M...
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naga objects C600.jpg Bamboo drinking cup, the surface stripped of cortex except for a vertical strip and band round the mouth which are covered with an indeterminate rocked linear design. Rengma, Tes...
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naga objects C601.jpg Vessel for baling rice into cooking-pot, made of unripe bamboo dried and shrunk. Ripe bamboo is apt to split. Chang, Tuensang village. artefacts Chang Tuensang 14cm Chang Tuensan...
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naga objects C602.jpg Hisi, cylindrical wooden drinking-mug, with two lugs for attachment to a plaited cane handle; carved from the solid. A small coil of tapered fibre cord (?cane strip) hangs on the...
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naga objects C603.jpg Man's drinking vessel, aohu, of bamboo with cane handle with cortex removed and mouth cut at a slant to a point. Naked Rengma, Meluri village. artefacts Rengma <Naked Meluri Melu...
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naga objects C604.jpg Woman's drinking cup, nimzar aohu, of bamboo with cortex removed and bevelled mouth; with cane handle. Naked Rengma, Meluri village. artefacts Rengma <Naked Meluri 12cm Rengma (N...
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naga objects C605.jpg Bamboo drinking cup with two handles and carrying string. Konyak, Borduria. artefacts Konyak Borduria 11cm Konyak Borduria 4:168 Pawsey/ C.R. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1926...
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naga objects C606.jpg Small cylindrical bamboo cup with bands of blackened designs incised. Konyak. artefacts Konyak 11cm Konyak 4:169 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1929 1923.85.574 des...
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naga objects C607.jpg Small bamboo cup, cylindrical, engraved with shaved and burnt designs...roughly executed. Usually given by an unmarried girl to her lover. Konyak, Nian village. artefacts Konyak ...
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naga objects C608.jpg Iron instrument for working incised pattern on bamboo drinking vessels. The outline is cut with the corner of the broad end; the double-spiked end is used where parallel lines ar...
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naga objects C609.jpg Collection of baetilic stones in a cane-work receptacle. Konyak, Yungya village. artefacts Konyak Yungya 16cm Konyak Yungya 4:174 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 192...
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naga objects C610.jpg Jawbone of a dog hung from the lentel of a house to keep away spirits. The dog spirit barks when spirits approach. Sema, Mishilimi village artefacts Sema Mishilimi 9cm Sema Mishi...
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naga objects C611.jpg Magic bundle placed in the village spring to lay a curse on the Rengma village of Tesophenyu. It contains: 1. hair of witch who used it; 2. earth from grave of a man killed by a ...
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naga objects C612.jpg Man's finger-tip, cut off a finger of his right hand to testify to the truth of his testimony in an adultery case in which he claimed to be a witness, when his statement was ques...
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naga objects C613.jpg 'Dead' female luck-stone, anagha. Sema, Tsivikaputomi village. artefacts Sema Tsivikaputomi dia. 4.5cm Sema Tsivikaputomi 4:178 Mills/ J.P. 7.10.1922 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxf...
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naga objects C614.jpg Tiger's canine tooth on which oaths have been taken. artefacts 12.5cm 4:179 Mills/ J.P. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1923 1928.69.807 descriptions derived from original source...
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naga objects C615.jpg Badger's tooth amulet. Mr Mills was assured that if he kept the tooth, with a large stone celt in a basket, in his house, he would certainly grow rich. Sema, Aochagalimi village....
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naga objects C616.jpg Spirit-scarer of pointed spathe or pod shell with holes cut out, 2 round and oblong holes resembling a face, the 'body' ending in a point. Possibly originally had red hair attach...
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naga objects C617.jpg Wooden amulet in the form of a spear-head barred on both sides with feather-like stripes in black (charcoal). Put over doors to keep out evil spirits. Rengma, Kitagha village. ar...
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naga objects C618.jpg Five small flat brush-like tattooing implements of thorn, bound between 2 shaped plates of bamboo, with leaf strip with tang to fix in a palm-stem handle; like an adze. Konyak, T...
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naga objects C619.jpg Two tattooing needles of quill in bamboo holders; the quills being bound together with blue thread. The bamboo holder when used is set in s small heavy handle. Konyak Yungpang. T...
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naga objects C620.jpg Two cupping horns from a morung, bought for 2 annas. Lhota, Yansutso village. artefacts Lhota Yanchuchu (Yansutso) max 8.5cm Lhota Yanchuchu (Yansutso) 4:190 Balfour 22.11.1922 g...
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naga objects C621.jpg Pointed lancet made of a slip of cane sliced thin and bent and bound with bark strip in a curve at the pointed end, the point hardened with fire. Seen in use by Mr Mills: a woman...
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naga objects C622.jpg Athapuka, toy bull-roarer of light wood, the cord attached to a stick. When children use it they are usually stopped by the old men who think that the sound attracts tigers. Roug...
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naga objects C623.jpg Wooden bull-roarer with cane handle, notches and incised decorations. A boy's toy now becoming obsolete. Konyak, Shiong village. artefacts Konyak Shiong 43cm Konyak Shiong 4:193 ...
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naga objects C624.jpg Bull-roarer used as a toy by boys or for scaring birds. Angami, Khonoma village. artefacts Angami Khonoma 41cm Angami Khonoma 4:194 Hutton/ J.H. 1922 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxf...
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naga objects C625.jpg Bull-roarer used by boys as a toy to bring rain, resembling a fish-tail (if the 'fork' were deeper the roarer would split). Konyak, Tamlu village. artefacts Konyak Tamlu 39.5cm K...
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naga objects C626.jpg Wooden pot of novel design of type probably derived from the bamboo flask. An iron band encircles top and bottom. The lid runs on two strings attached to the pot through the wood...
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naga objects C627.jpg Bamboo dish for 'thirst producers' to contain salted beans and chillies. It is held on the finger while the hand retains the vessel of liquor. Angami. artefacts Angami dia. 10.7c...
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naga objects C628.jpg Low wooden stool carved with 16 hornbill heads in relief; used only by Ang (hereditary chief and priest). Konyak, Wakching village. artefacts Konyak Wakching 51.5cm Konyak Wakchi...
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naga objects C629.jpg Specimen of goat's hair and glue for binding on spear shaft. Chang, Longtang village. artefacts Chang Longtang 30.5cm Chang Longtang 4:204 Mills/ J.P. 10.12.1936 gift Pitt Rivers...
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naga objects C630.jpg naga objects C631.jpg Hat of open cane-work without decoration or ornament. Phom, but also worn by Chang and Ao. artefacts Phom Ao Chang 15cm (h) Phom 4:205-206 Hutton/ J.H. gift...
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naga objects C632.jpg Man's conical hat made of thatching palm fibre on a thin frame of chips of cane. Konyak, Yungpang village. artefacts Konyak Yungphong (Yungpang) 19cm (h) Konyak Yungphong (Yungpa...
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naga objects C633.jpg Round wooden food dish with pedestal and carrying handle carved of one piece. Open-work triangles are cut in the base. Kalyo-Kengyu, Sangchurr village. artefacts Kalyo-Kengyu San...
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naga objects C634.jpg Hat of langur skin with quill feather in the middle. Phom, Urangkong village. artefacts Phom Urangkong dia. 18cm Phom Urangkong 4:209 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford...
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naga objects C635.jpg Weeding hoe from the Tirap area. This is a remote and thinly-populated area with no smiths. So that this seems to be a home-made development of the bamboo loop hoe here. Iron bla...
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naga objects C636.jpg Warrior's headdress of hide, hair-covered. Decorated with wooden 'horns', hair fringes and 'tiger's eyes' made with coix seeds and beetle elytrae. Rengma, Thegwepenyebengyu villa...
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naga objects C637.jpg Cane helmet, with pangolin tail and boar's tusks. Chang, Yangemdi village. artefacts Chang Yongyimti (Yangemdi) 21.5cm (dia.) Chang Yongyimti (Yangemdi) 4:212 Hutton/ J.H. gift P...
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naga objects C638.jpg Man's hat made of pieces of bear skin sewn into a conical hat. A boar's tusk is attached on either side. Konyak, Okha village. artefacts Konyak Ukha (Okha) 16cm (h) Konyak Ukha (...
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naga objects C639.jpg Thin wig of hair on a cane-work frame with top-knot and binding of thick white cotton thread roll. Round the edge is a chaplet of stiff black bear's hair. Angami, Mozema village....
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naga objects C640.jpg Hat of light cane-work with pig-bristle crest and a chaplet round the top of dyed goat's hair. The skull and upper beak of a hornbill is affixed in front underside up; also hornb...
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naga objects C641.jpg Cane-work hat ornamented with two thin laminae of mithan horn, two crescent pieces of brass, the skin and forelegs of a monitor, and two carved wooden heads. Long fringes of huma...
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naga objects C642.jpg Hat of cane-work with two [missing] black feathers and a large boar's tusk. A chaplet of long pig's bristles encircles the hat interspersed with sharp bristles dyed red. An ornam...
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naga objects C643.jpg Man's hat of thin cane-work ornamented with two pieces of mithan horn with hair and feather at tips. The top is covered with the head skin of a monkey (Pithicus brahma) Chaokik, ...
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naga objects C644.jpg Warrior's cane-work hat with red dyed goat's hair ornamented with two pieces of mithan horn with human hair on the end. Konyak, Chinlong village. artefacts Konyak Chinglong (Chin...
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naga objects C645.jpg Cane war helmet with chaplet of human and bear hair. Yachungerr, Cheshorr village. artefacts Yachungerr Cheshorr 22cm (h) Yachungerr Cheshorr 4:221 Mills/ J.P. 1919 gift Pitt Riv...
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naga objects C646.jpg Hemispherical helmet of brown split cane twill with a crest of black bristle and ornamented 'horn' plate with black hair plume. In front a centrally cusped crescent of brass. Giv...
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naga objects C647.jpg Man's black basket-work hat with black horns and black hair-fringes. The horns are barred with white chevrons. A strip of hide with long coarse hair forms a crest. Konyak, Wakchi...
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naga objects C648.jpg Head ornament, peaked headband of cane-work. Mon village, Konyak. artefacts Konyak Mon max. dia. 19cm Konyak Mon 4:224 Hutton/ J.H. 21.10.1923 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 192...
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naga objects C649.jpg Standard weeding hoe. artefacts haft 47cm, blade 23.5cm 4:225 Stonor/ Charles 1947 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1967.18.10 descriptions derived from original source material u...
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naga objects C650.jpg Weeding hoe, Konyak/Chang. artefacts 54cm Konyak Chang 4:226 Stonor/ Charles 1947 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1967.18.16 descriptions derived from original source material un...
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naga objects C651.jpg Man's hair ornament consisting of a tubular cross-bar of white cotton bound with a network of black and red threads and strips of yellow orchid stem, with two fragments of porcup...
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naga objects C652.jpg hair ornament? artefacts 4:228 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated no card found
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naga objects C653.jpg Square purple basketry dish with 4 legs and strengthening foot-ring. Yachungr (Yachumi). artefacts Yachungr (Yachumi) 12cm (h), 18cm (dia.) Yachungr (Yachumi) 4:229 Hutton/ J.H. ...
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naga objects C654.jpg Hat of coiled basketry with the tail of a pangolin (Manis sp.) over the crest, and at either side a large spread bird's wing. Yimsungr, Sangpurr village. artefacts Yimsungr Sangp...
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naga objects C655.jpg Warrior's hair ornament with hair from heads taken in raids. Found at Wailam (Pangsha) village (Kalyo-Kengyu), but probably belonging to a man of Ponyo (S.Konyak), Burma. artefac...
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naga objects C656.jpg Replica of a bone hoe, kezur. Used by poor families who could not afford iron hoe from the local blacksmiths, and from which iron hoe may well be derived. Made by a woman of over...
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naga objects C657.jpg Basket on 4 bamboo (stilt-like) legs, with conical lid. Given with badger's tooth amulet and large stone celt [missing]. Mills was assured that if he kept these two artefacts in ...
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naga objects C658.jpg Small subcylindrical twistwork cane-work basket with square base and 4 feet made of V-shaped angles of branching bamboo across the base and up the sides. There are two cane bound...
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naga objects C659.jpg Pitsi-zha (priest's basket). Pedestal basket made by splitting the ends of a bamboo joint into thin strips and then weaving them together to form a band on a pedestal with expand...
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naga objects C660.jpg Weeding hoe used in non-irrigated rice-fields and clearly derived from the bamboo loop hoe of this region. The Konyak Nagas are very prolific and skilled blacksmiths. Konyak, Lon...
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naga objects C661.jpg Beer-making strainer, chani, on which fermented rice is placed. Warm water is poured over it. The resultant liquor is chamchu, the ordinary drink of all Lhotas. artefacts Lhota 1...
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naga objects C662.jpg Wooden pendant perhaps derived from bull-roarers, painted like horn-bill feathers. Hung up by a rich man who has performed mithan-sacrifice. Konyak, Kaingam-Yaknyu (or Shua) vill...
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naga objects C663.jpg Dao-shaped pendant for hanging from eaves of a house. Derived from the bull-roarer. Konyak, Chongwe (Aopao) village. artefacts Konyak Aopao (Chongwe) Aopao 51cm Konyak Aopao (Cho...
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naga objects C664.jpg Bull-roarer derivative, hung up in doorway of house to avert evil spirits, with wax-painted designs. Sema, Mishilimi, Doiang valley. artefacts Sema Mishilimi Diyung R. (Doiang R....
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naga objects C665.jpg Bull-roarer derivative, squared variety. Hung up in doorway of a house to avert spirits; painted with wide wax lines. Sema, Mishilimi village, Doiang valley. artefacts Sema Mishi...
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naga objects C666.jpg Bull-roarer, aowu-prurr, a boy's toy. The cord for whirling it being tied through a hole near point. Naked Rengma, Meluri village. artefacts Rengma <Naked Meluri Rengma (Naked) M...
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naga objects C667.jpg Threm-threm, bull-roarer, a boy's toy, not used by girls. Chiefly used while crops are growing; no beliefs concerning it. Lhota, Okotso village. artefacts Lhota Okotso 25cm Lhota...
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naga objects C668.jpg Kampi, bull-roarer used to induce rain. This one was certainly used and was not symbolic or decorative. A fibre cord attached to a notch (not a hole as elsewhere) is used to whir...
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naga objects C669.jpg Four jews harps of split bamboo. Chang. artefacts Chang 16cm 5:7 Balfour 1922-1923 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1953.10.90 descriptions derived from original source material u...
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naga objects C670.jpg Small boy's clarinet with four stops. Ao, Mokokchung village. artefacts Ao Mokokchung 21cm Ao Mokokchung 5:8 Balfour 1922 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1953.10.124 Balfour diar...
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naga objects C671.jpg Pair of bamboo jews harps with shaped handles. Sangtam, Mangaki village. artefacts Sangtam Mangaki 19cm, 16.5cm Sangtam Mangaki 5:9 Mills/ J.P. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 19...
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naga objects C672.jpg Small primitive clarinet with vibrating tongue at upper end, two stops. Konyak, Oting village. artefacts Konyak Oting 9cm Konyak Oting 5:11 Mills/ J.P. 13.10.1923 gift Pitt River...
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naga objects C673.jpg Small clarinet made of green reed closed by a node which is shaved off to a round point and slit to form a single vibrating tongue. There are two fringe stops and a hole in the s...
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naga objects C674.jpg Trumpet of mithan horn. Lhota. artefacts Lhota 20.5cm (span) Lhota 5:13 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1929 1923.85.660 descriptions derived from original source ma...
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naga objects C675.jpg Large bamboo trumpet,phuppu, with bamboo mouthpiece fixed with a leaf when required. Lhota. artefacts Lhota c.100cm Lhota 5:14 Mills/ J.P. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1928 19...
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naga objects C676.jpg Horn trumpet from a morung, with its sides trimmed roughly flat with a knife. Konyak, Kongan village. artefacts Konyak Kongan 39.5cm Konyak Kongan 5:15 Balfour [17.11.1922] gift ...
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naga objects C677.jpg Wooden cowbell, gwichu, for a tame mithan. Angami. artefacts Angami 29cm (l) Angami 5:17 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 2.1915 1915.8.11 descriptions derived from o...
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naga objects C678.jpg Wooden cowbell, thetzi, with double clapper of old spear shaft (used for hardness of the wood), with rattan strands for suspension. Angami. artefacts Angami 28cm Angami 5:18 Hutt...
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naga objects C679.jpg Clapper bird-scare. Hung from a long springy bamboo, fixed in the ground with a loosely-suspended striking stick which is caused by the wind to strike against the clapper. Naked ...
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naga objects C680.jpg Circular brass gong, convex outer surface without central projection. ?Konyak. artefacts Konyak 32cm (dia.) Konyak 5:20 Lambert/ E.T.D. 1936 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1942....
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naga objects C681.jpg Circular bronze gong with central boss. Konyak. artefacts Konyak 21cm (dia.) Konyak 5:22 Lambert/ E.T.D. 1936 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1942.8.16 descriptions derived from ...
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naga objects C682.jpg Wooden drum-rattle, with lizard-skin cover, lashed on with cane. artefacts 11cm (h) 5:23 Woodthorpe/ Col. R.G. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1909 1909.21.147 from Dr. E.T. Wils...
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naga objects C683.jpg Kohkohpfo, bird-scare, suspended from a long bamboo stuck in the ground, the wind causes the wooden bar to strike against the hollow bamboo. Sema, Sotsemi village. artefacts Sema...
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naga objects C684.jpg Spring clapper of bamboo used for scaring birds, a bamboo tube has two oval holes made in it, into which the cane is split from below. Angami, Khonoma village. artefacts Angami K...
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naga objects C685.jpg Three-stringed [one missing] fiddle of carved wood, with four pegs. Bow missing. One string within the body of the instrument. The sounding board is of leather. Two of the pegs a...
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naga objects C686.jpg Small monochord fiddle, made of a small coconut shell covered tightly with a membrane tied at the apex. Stem is of wood carved into a roll at the end with a raised rectangular tu...
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