The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database
  1. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1061.jpg "skull trophies hanging outside the Ang's house at Shiong, Konyak" sketches Shiong Balfour/ Henry 15.11.1922 documentation based on original source information unless within squ...
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  2. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1062.jpg Nihu, Angami of Kohima, October 1922 (left); Ao of Yacham at Chantongia, 8 Nov. 1922 (centre); Zukishe of Phesami, 25 October 1922 (Baimho) (right) sketches Zukishe/ of Phesami ...
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  3. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1063.jpg [body wrapped in palm leaves, sketched at Kongan] sketches Balfour/ Henry 17.11.1922 17:3 documentation based on original source information unless within square brackets Pitt R...
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  4. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1064.jpg [skulls sketched at Kongan] sketches Kongan Balfour/ Henry 17.11.1922 documentation based on original source information unless within square brackets 17:4 Pitt Rivers Museum Ar...
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  5. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1065.jpg [skull urn, sketched at Kongan] sketches Kongan Balfour/ Henry 17.11.1922 documentation based on original source information unless within square brackets 17:5 Pitt Rivers Museu...
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  6. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1066.jpg [wooden Lhota hornbill carvings: Pangti (centre), Yansucho (bottom)] sketches Lhota Pangti Yanchuchu (Yansucho) Balfour/ Henry 1922 17:6 documentation based on original source i...
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  7. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1067.jpg [wooden Lhota hornbill carvings: Pangti (top), Yansucho (centre), Sanis (bottom)] sketches Lhota Pangti Yanchuchu (Yansucho) Sanis Balfour/ Henry 1922 17:7 documentation based o...
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  8. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1068.jpg [Konyak and Ao carvings of monkeys: Tamlu (top), Susu (centre, bottom)] sketches Konyak Ao Tamlu Chuchu Yimlang (Susu) Balfour/ Henry 1922 17:8 documentation based on original s...
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  9. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1069.jpg [Konyak carvings of monkeys: Tamlu (top, bottom), Kongan (centre)] sketches Konyak Tamlu Kongan Balfour/ Henry 1922 17:9 documentation based on original source information unles...
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  10. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1070.jpg drum carving, 2nd morung, Kensa (Mongsin) village sketches Khensa (Kensa) Balfour/ Henry 1922 17:10 documentation based on original source information unless within square brack...
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  11. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1071.jpg drum carving, Chongli khel, Mokokchung village sketches Chongli khel/ Mokokchung Mokokchung Balfour/ Henry 30.10.1922 documentation based on original source information unless w...
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  12. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1072.jpg Ao carved heads of log-gongs , Chantongia village sketches Ao Chantongia Balfour/ Henry 8.11.1922 documentation based on original source information unless within square bracket...
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  13. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1073.jpg varieties of carvings of boar's head carved on Angami house fronts sketches Angami Balfour/ Henry 1922 17:13 documentation based on original source information unless within squ...
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  14. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1074.jpg Palang morung, Wakching village The front wall built from three immense solid planks; carved stamping platform across the front; bull-roarer pendants from eaves sketches Wakchin...
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  15. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1075.jpg [Ao hornbill carvings] inscriptions read: Ao - copy sent by Hutton, 1916; old morung - pig's blood and indigo sketches Hutton/ J.H. documentation based on original source inform...
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  16. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1076.jpg pot-making, Shiong village sketches Shiong Balfour/ Henry 15.11.1922 documentation based on original source information unless within square brackets 17:16 Pitt Rivers Museum Ar...
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  17. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1077.jpg married woman pounding dhan, Shiong village [showing the false pigtail] sketches Shiong Balfour/ Henry 15.11.1922 documentation based on original source information unless withi...
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  18. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1078.jpg Ao woman of Chantongia (left); Konyak of Wakching sketches Chantongia Wakching Balfour/ Henry 8.11.1922 14.11.22 documentation based on original source information unless within...
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  19. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1079.jpg smoking a corpse inside a dwelling house, Kerami village, Kalyo-Kengyu sketches Kalyo-Kengyu Laruri (Kerami) Balfour/ Henry 16.10.1922 documentation based on original source inf...
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  20. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1080.jpg Naked Rengma man, Melomi village sketches Rengma <Naked Meluri (Melomi) Balfour/ Henry 19.10.1922 documentation based on original source information unless within square bracket...
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  21. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1114.jpg Konyak woman of the Shikhabang fratry from Kamahu, living at Chantongia village [tattooed] sketches Shikhabang fratry/ Kamahu Konyak Kamahu Chantongia Balfour/ Henry 1922 17:55 ...
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  22. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1115.jpg Man-ang, a Konyak of Tamlu, at Mokokchung [tattooed] sketches Man-ang/ of Tamlu Tamlu Balfour/ Henry 30.10.1922 documentation based on original source information unless within ...
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  23. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1116.jpg facial tatu of Hamshang, a Konyak of Shiong sketches Hamshang/ of Shiong Konyak Shiong Balfour/ Henry 12.11.1922 documentation based on original source information unless within...
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  24. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1117.jpg Chang woman's facial tatu, Yongyiemdi sketches Chang Yongyimti (Yongyiemdi) Balfour/ Henry 6.11.1922 documentation based on original source information unless within square brac...
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  25. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1118.jpg Shoba, a Konyak of Wakching, sketched in camp on the Dikhu R. sketches tattoo Shoba/ of Wakching Konyak Wakching Dikhu R. Balfour/ Henry 1922 17:59 documentation based on origin...
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  26. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1119.jpg Hingkap, an old Konyak of Tamlu [tattooed] sketches Hingkap/ of Tamlu Konyak Tamlu Balfour/ Henry 11.11.1922 documentation based on original source information unless within squ...
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  27. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1120.jpg pattern tatued on the chest of an Ao man from Yacham, at Chantongia sketches Ao Yacham Chantongia Balfour/ Henry 8.11.1922 documentation based on original source information unl...
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  28. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1121.jpg casting brass 'cogwheel' armlets, Konyak, Wakching village sketches Konyak Wakching Balfour/ Henry 16.11.1922 documentation based on original source information unless within sq...
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  29. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1126.jpg Wang-po, a Konyak of Wakching, chiselling designs upon an armlet The designs are chiselled on a half-round brass rod, cast by himself, before bending it round to make an armlet....
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  30. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1127.jpg bismar or weighing beam Used by Wang-po for weighing brass-scrap for casting into rods. sketches Wang-po/ of Wakching Wakching Balfour/ Henry 1922 17:68 documentation based on o...
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  31. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1128.jpg [blacksmith's bellows] sketches Balfour/ Henry 1922 17:69 documentation based on original source information unless within square brackets Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford Bal...
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  32. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    naga objects S1129.jpg casting white-metal bar for making armlet in bamboo tube, Lhota, Bhandari sketches Lhota Bhandari Balfour/ Henry 20.11.1922 documentation based on original source information un...
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  33. sketches by Henry Balfour, 1922
    casting half-round brass rod for making armlet, Konyak, Wakching village sketches Wakching Balfour/ Henry 16.11.1922 documentation based on original source information unless within square brackets 01...
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  34. sketch from H. Balfour, 'Thorn-lined traps and their Distribution', Man,
    naga misc S46464.jpg portions of the thorny rachides of climbing palms sketches Balfour/ Henry
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  35. sketch from H. Balfour 'Ceremonial Fire-making in the Naga Hills', Man, June 1926
    naga misc S46465.jpg fire-making apparatus, Naga Hills sketches Balfour/ Henry
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