The Nagas

naga objects C687.jpg Fiddle and bow made by a Sangtam of Mangaki village after an Ao model. The resonator is a cigarette tin and the strings horse hair. artefacts Sangtam Ao Mangaki 45cm (fiddle), 27...
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naga objects C688.jpg naga objects C689.jpg Monochord lute with body of coconut shell overlaid with spathe lashed on, and with wooden neck terminating in carved conventionalised hornbill's head. The s...
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naga objects C690.jpg Fiddle with gourd body covered with spathe, a long thin carved wooden neck with short bamboo bars tied on transversely. It has a single string of horse hair and a rough bow of ba...
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naga objects C691.jpg Hat of thick cane with chaplet of pig's bristles round the base and a thin slice of mithan horn on each side. In front is a hornbill's head with under-surface uppermost. Obtained...
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naga objects C692.jpg Wicker-work hat with brim decorated with feathers and with a pair of imitation boar's tusks (made from a porcelain plate). Konyak, Wakching village. artefacts Konyak Wakching 50c...
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naga objects C693.jpg Hat, rushukiven, made of cane with two fine serow horns and skin with feathers of Malayan wreathed hornbill. Worn at dances. A plain helmet was worn in war and is now used in tig...
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naga objects C694.jpg Drinking horn made of a large mithan horn on a cane-work stand. Kacha, Lyengmai village. artefacts Kacha Lyengmai 42cm (horn), 37cm (stand) Kacha Lyengmai 5:39 Hutton/ J.H. gift ...
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naga objects C695.jpg Cane-work hat with chaplet of wild boar bristles with a small fringe of bear's hair beneath and plume of hair taken from the head of a Mohung woman taken in war. Konyak, Totok vi...
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naga objects C696.jpg naga objects C697.jpg Flat kite-shaped rain hat made of plates of spathe sewn together with cane strips, and edged with split cane with cross strips on the underside to which a c...
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naga objects C698.jpg Bride's rice-basket with flat, square base and cane-loop handle. Woven with a reticulated diamond pattern. Ao, Yacham village. artefacts Ao Yacham 45cm Ao Yacham 5:43 Mills/ J.P....
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naga objects C699.jpg Basket quiver containing 13 cane quarrels, fletched with leaf. Sema. artefacts Sema 47cm Sema 5:44 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1928 1923.84.458 descriptions deri...
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naga objects C700.jpg Large gourd water-vessel with long neck, mekwu, used in houses by all Nagas. Popularly called lao (Assamese); Sema name = ahogu. Those with straight necks are used in the house. ...
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naga objects C701.jpg naga objects C702.jpg Head-hunting basket made of broad strips of bamboo taken on raids to bring back heads. It can be closed with string to present theft by any other member of ...
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naga objects C703.jpg Man's carrying basket with tassels of black hair. Konyak, Kongnyu village. artefacts Konyak Kongnyu 32cm Konyak Kongnyu 5:49 Mills/ J.P. 11.11.1936 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxfor...
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naga objects C704.jpg naga objects C705.jpg [Haversack of tree bark (outside) and basketwork (inside), 'tali' Adi (Abor)] artefacts 50cm Abor 5:50-51 Woodthorpe/ Col. R.G. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxf...
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naga objects C706.jpg Basket of patterned finely-woven split cane of conical form with a frame of bamboo cut into strips to a neck and spread out into ribs. Used for carrying. Lhota, Okotso village. a...
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naga objects C707.jpg Wooden drinking horn in the form of a mithan horn, made by Nzemi Kacha Naga, Tapama village. The black lacquer was added by a Kuki; the Naga do not blacken these imitation horns....
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naga objects C708.jpg A pair of horns of sago palm spathe ?, put over the horns of the bull's head hung on a house front to increase their size. Chang, Hakchang village. artefacts Chang Hakchang 54cm ...
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naga objects C709.jpg Round large heavy wooden dish with four divisions and four legged stand with ring base. Sema, Vishepu village. artefacts Sema Vishyepu (Vishepu) 29cm (h), 40.5cm (dia.) Sema Vish...
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naga objects C710.jpg Head ornament and chaplet of bear's hair, worn with or without hornbill feathers, which are affixed on ceremonial occasions. The feathers are used by Rengma, Lhota and Ao and tra...
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naga objects C711.jpg Wooden drinking vessel, made by an Angami of Kohima more than 100 years ago. [Brass screw in side.] Angami, Tseminyu village. artefacts Angami Rengma Tseminyu Kohima 50cm (span) ...
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naga objects C712.jpg Large basket of bamboo strips plaited with blackened cane. With forehead strap used for carrying cooked rice, drinking gourds etc, with small feet to stand it on. The strap is a ...
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naga objects C713.jpg Large cup of white wood modelled on a foreign pattern with bowl of semi-oval section and cylindrical stem expanding into a foot. Rengma, Tseminyu village. artefacts Rengma Tsemin...
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naga objects C714.jpg Cane-work (cross-warp checker) model of a man with a basket hung up in an Ang's house. Collected on a transfrontier expedition. Konyak, Longmien village. artefacts Konyak Longmie...
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naga objects C715.jpg [woven basket or Joppa.] artefacts 90cm 5:65 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated no l...
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naga objects C716.jpg Woman's large load basket, hura, carried by a band across the forehead, for yams, paddy water (in bamboo vessels), stones (for stone cooking, up to 150 pounds). Basket is round, ...
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naga objects C717.jpg naga objects C718.jpg Model of a lifesize figure put on the grave of a man who has taken a head. Dressed in cotton cloth, armbands of paper. The teeth and the trimming of the kil...
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naga objects C719.jpg Cane-work (cross-warp checker) ornament, representing 7 conventionalised men, their feet on the base-line, their heads meeting at the apex. Hung up in the Ang's house. Konyak, Lo...
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naga objects C720.jpg Suvangsu (Chongli Ao), worn by a man of Chamir phratry who has done genna with a share of a head or by a man of Pongen or Lungkamr phratries who has done genna with a whole head ...
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naga objects C721.jpg Skirt of poor woman of Pongenr or Lungkamr phratry. Pattern embroidered on the stripes in red trade wool. Longchang village, Ao. [two strips.] artefacts Ao Saoching (Longchang) 1...
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naga objects C722.jpg Girl's first skirt. [two strips.] Mongsen Ao, Sangrachu village. artefacts Ao <Mongsen Sangratsu (Sangrachu) 110 x 65cm Ao (Mongsen) Sangratsu (Sangrachu) 5:80 Mills/ J.P. gift P...
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naga objects C723.jpg First native cloth made of wool. Made by an Ao woman, the pattern being entirely her own, with sheep's wool (from Mr Hutton's sheep) [weft] and cotton [warp] and with black huluk...
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naga objects C724.jpg Rich woman's skirt, can be worn by a woman of any phratry but only if her father and grandfather have done mithan sacrifice. Ao, Ungma village. [two strips.] artefacts Ao Ungma 1...
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naga objects C725.jpg Man's cloth, kizesu, Ungma village, Ao. [2 strips.] artefacts Ao Ungma 147 x 140 (h)cm Ao Ungma 5:86 Mills/ J.P. 7.1924 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1928.69.838 descriptions d...
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naga objects C726.jpg naga objects C727.jpg naga objects C728.jpg naga objects C729.jpg Cotton cloth of a man who has taken heads, done mithan sacrifice and killed tiger and elephant. The latest elabo...
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naga objects C730.jpg naga objects C731.jpg Rongsuscu, cloth which can be worn by a man who is descended from a father and grandfather who have sacrificed mithan and who has sacrificed mithan himself....
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naga objects C732.jpg Cloth of nettle fibre. Khonoma, Angami. [four strips.] artefacts Angami Khonoma 171 x 105 (h)cm Angami Khonoma 5:94 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1928 1923.85.223 ...
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naga objects C733.jpg Cloth made of the skin of a kind of jute. [four strips.] Angami. artefacts Angami 174 x 126 (h)cm Angami 5:95 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1928 1923.84.390 descri...
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naga objects C734.jpg Cloth made of the fibrous skin of a nettle. Angami, Memi village. [Blue lines perhaps cotton. Four strips.] artefacts Angami Memi 180 x 126cm Angami Memi 5:96 Hutton/ J.H. gift P...
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naga objects C735.jpg New development in Angami embroidery. Human figures, man on horse, pig, green butterfly, and two large beetles called 'the eaters of seven companies.' Technique invented by Ulhon...
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naga objects C736.jpg Woman's shawl or skirt. Angami. Collected by donor when Governor of Assam in 1937-42. [Four strips. Possibly striped patterned border originally one piece, cut in two.] artefacts...
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naga objects C737.jpg White cotton cloth with pattern of small black diamond motifs at centre. ? Angami. artefacts Angami Angami 5:99 Reid/ Sir Robert gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1955.11.22 descri...
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naga objects C738.jpg Boy's cloth, with pattern in wool. Chang, Tuensang village. [three strips.] artefacts Chang Tuensang 138 x 96 (h)cm Chang Tuensang 5:100 Mills/ J.P. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxfo...
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naga objects C739.jpg Young man's cloth. [two strips plus central strip.] Chang, Hakchung village. artefacts Chang <Eastern Hakchang (Hakchung) 136 x 81cm Chang (Eastern) Hakchang (Hakchung) 5:101 Mil...
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naga objects C740.jpg Man's cloth, red and black and with white central panel with red stripes and wax pattern of circles. At one corner is a tassel of 3 red woollen balls. Chang, Chingmei village. [t...
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naga objects C741.jpg ?Man's black cloth thickly embroidered with red wool. [three strips.] Chang, Chingmei village. artefacts Chang Chingmei 128 x 106cm Chang Chingmei 5:103 Hutton/ J.H. 15.11.1923 g...
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naga objects C742.jpg Very fine cloth, worn as a skirt by statuette of goddess. Native cotton, woven as 6 narrow bands, and then sewn together. The centre consists of broad black and narrower white st...
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naga objects C743.jpg Woman's cloth, belonged to sorceress [Gaidiliu]. End fringes of red-dyed goat's hair bound with yellow orchid skin. [two strips.] artefacts Gaidiliu Kabui Kambiron 174 x 43.5cm K...
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naga objects C744.jpg Girl's scarf usually worn as a waist cloth. The edges have a ?woven pattern of triangles in red and black wool (weft). The ends are fringed with tassels of yellow orchid strip an...
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naga objects C745.jpg Girl's shawl, embroidered at the ends, with a row of white porcelain buttons sewn on each end, where is also a fringe of red dyed goat's hair tied in bunches bound with yellow or...
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naga objects C746.jpg Cloth worn as a shawl, of indigo and red with white lines (?woven in Imphal). [three strips.] Kabui, mountains between Manipur valley and Silchar valley. artefacts Kabui Imphal 1...
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naga objects C747.jpg Large cloth of a man who has done the mithan sacrifice, covered with narrow red stripes and black-edged white lines, and with elaborate designs in black and red wool needlework. ...
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naga objects C748.jpg Man's body cloth, of cotton, with tufts of indigo threads and red hair sewn on greyish background. Kalyo-Kengyu, Wui village. [three strips.] artefacts Kalyo-Kengyu Wui 142 x 93c...
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naga objects C749.jpg Man's dancing kilt. A long narrow piece of white woven stuff with indigo-patterned dull red selvages, and five small indigo tassels along the narrow ends. Kabui, Fullertol villag...
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naga objects C750.jpg Breech cloth worn by the statuette of the male god in the temple at Kambiron village. Ornamented with threads and tufts of red and black wools and yellow cotton. Kabui, Kambiron ...
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naga objects C751.jpg Rich woman's skirt - the only garment worn (except a blanket when cold). Narrow strip of woven cotton, with thin lines of pink, blue and khaki. One end is ornamented with a panel...
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naga objects C752.jpg Woman's narrow skirt or red with black and blue transverse lines, with embroidered pattern in red and black on the white. Worn below buttocks but up in front. Konyak, Aching (Pon...
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naga objects C753.jpg Woman's narrow skirt with ornamental pattern in various colours. Made by Ahon's wife. Konyak, Shiong village. artefacts Ahon Konyak Shiong 100.5 x 12.5 (width of patterned area)c...
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naga objects C754.jpg [Woman's woven skirt. Konyak.] artefacts 5:116 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford no card found - poss. Longmiren, 20.4.23? descriptions derived from original source material unless...
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naga objects C755.jpg Unmarried girl's breastcloth or stomacher of black, edged at the ends with zigzags of red and white cotton. A fringe one end ornamented with 6 large green buprestid beetles. Surf...
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naga objects C756.jpg three cloths artefacts 5:118 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford closeup of each cloth descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise state...
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naga objects C757.jpg Warrior's cloth, black and red, with lines of cowries. Konyak, Yungya village. artefacts Konyak Yungya 144 x 105cm Konyak Yungya 5:119 Mills/ J.P. 20.8.1923 gift Pitt Rivers Muse...
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naga objects C758.jpg Cloth of a man who has done mithan sacrifice, of dark blue-black and red with embroidered central band of type peculiar to the village: red and yellow latticed lozenges with smal...
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naga objects C759.jpg Cloth, charaksi, of wife of man who has dragged a stone. Black with thin plaid-like bands and white lines with some horizontal touched with black. Made at Rephyim of Lhota thread...
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naga objects C760.jpg Cloth, puthiscu (puthi's cloth), red with broad black and narrow blue bands, only to be worn by a puthi (village priest). Now worn at only a few places apart from Sanglap. [two s...
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naga objects C761.jpg Woman's skirt, tserhum, black with inset blue band (indigo) with thin red and blue lines: there is a little yellow embroidery. [four strips.] Ndreng Lhota, Wokha village. artefac...
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naga objects C762.jpg Woman's black loin-cloth with lines of red and blue, and white panel embroidered with red and yellow at the edges. [two strips plus central strip.] Lhota, Longsa village. artefac...
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naga objects C763.jpg Large wrap of white cotton thread with thick warp threads of untwisted flock overlaid on one side (3.5 to the inch). Kacha, Pelekima village. [four strips.] artefacts Kacha Pelek...
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naga objects C764.jpg Cloth woven from mixed gwakro fibre (a kind of jute) and cotton. E. Angami, Enholomi village. artefacts Angami <Eastern Enholomi 696 x 31cm Angami (Eastern) Enholomi 5:126 Mills/...
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naga objects C765.jpg Skirt of the wife of a man who has done atsali feast of merit. Of blue and white cotton, the blue with red lines and a dotted yellow line, with a triple line of alternate red and...
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naga objects C766.jpg Skirt of the wife of a man who has given full series of feasts of merit, of two pieces of small cloth sewn together, white and blue. Lines of quadruple dots in blue part indicati...
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naga objects C767.jpg Cloth of a man who has performed the full series of feasts of merit, of red with white-edged black stripes: embroidered with 2 cross-bands of x-shaped designs in white orange and...
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naga objects C768.jpg Large blue cloth of a man who has taken heads with red stripes at the selvages and two narrow white panels with stamped and painted designs in black of warriors (on one panel), t...
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naga objects C769.jpg Skirt of the wife of a man who has done the mithan sacrifice. Black with double red lines and narrow white panel worked with red black and yellow and pink wool in double zig-zag ...
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naga objects C770.jpg Young man's fringed cloth of dark indigo with four pairs of thin double red lines (two being marginal) and narrow white panel with small oblong ornaments of zigzags partly colour...
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naga objects C771.jpg Cloth of a young man who has taken heads but has not done the mithan sacrifice. Dark blue with two pairs of thin red lines and a narrow white panel with designs of warriors and t...
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naga objects C772.jpg Cloth of the daughter of a man who has given full series of feasts of merit. Black with lines and rings of cowries centred with red-dyed tufts of dog's hair. [three strips.] Reng...
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naga objects C773.jpg Warrior's cloth embroidered with squares and red-dyed dog's hair and decorated with large circles of cowries, with tassel (Sangtam type) at one corner of wood covered with coix s...
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naga objects C774.jpg Man's large cloth striped white, black and red and embroidered with red (and a little black) wool. Obtained from Phuzekhu (? Thuzekhu) of Baimho. [four strips.] Yimtsungr, Chesho...
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naga objects C775.jpg Woman's skirt of blue-black stuff, with red lines and strips and red wool design. [two strips.] Sangtam, Mangaki village. artefacts Sangtam Mangaki 102 x 59cm Sangtam Mangaki 5:1...
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naga objects C776.jpg Skirt of a rich man's wife of indigo with fine white lines and narrow stripes on either side of a space in the centre filled with decorative bands and worked ornaments in white o...
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naga objects C777.jpg Woman's skirt, narrow strip of bright blue cloth with red lines and embroidered lozenge patterns of red trade wool. [1 piece.] N. Sangtam, Mangaki village. artefacts Sangtam <Nor...
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naga objects C778.jpg Pair of old woman's leggings (or puttees). Northern Sangtam, Mangaki village. artefacts Sangtam <Northern Mangaki 86 x 14cm Sangtam (Northern) Mangaki 5:140 Mills/ J.P. gift Pitt...
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naga objects C779.jpg Rich woman's skirt of black and red elaborately embroidered with red-dyed dog's hair in x-designs, chevrons and lozenges. [two strips plus central panel.] Sangtam, Charr village....
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naga objects C780.jpg Crudely-carved figure of a bird, of soft white wood, with a few touches of black pigment. The wings were made separately (now fixed by glue for safety). It hung outside a resting...
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naga objects C781.jpg Wooden plank with painted carving of a tiger a bear. The colouring is: black from burnt wood, white from burnt bone, red from burnt earth or soft stone. E. Angami, Chizami villag...
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Figurines, a man and a woman carved of grey stone. The body is quadrangular, the head rounded, the face heart-shaped with central ridge for nose. Breasts slightly indicated (woman). Arms and legs carv...
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naga objects C784.jpg Roughly-carved figure of a hornbill, probably a morung decoration. Konyak, Namsang village. artefacts Konyak Namsang 49cm Konyak Namsang 5:146 Pawsey/ C.R. gift Pitt Rivers Museu...
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naga objects C785.jpg Wooden model (native carved) of a typical morung pillar, carved with designs of land-crab, frog, snake, bird, serow and human figures. Konyak, Chongwe village. artefacts Konyak A...
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naga objects C786.jpg naga objects C1297.jpg Model of a morung post with representation of four hornbills and a ?mithan's head. Rengma, Tesophenyu village. artefacts Rengma Tesophenyu 77cm Rengma Teso...
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naga objects C787.jpg Tobacco box, made from the testicle of a water buffalo. [Wood lining inside. The Chang also make such boxes from the testicles of mithan, serow, sambhur etc.] Chang, Chingmei vil...
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naga objects C788.jpg Tobacco box, made from testicle of a goat. [Skin lining over wooden interior.] Chang, Chingmei village. artefacts Chang Chingmei 11.5cm Chang Chingmei 5:150 Mills/ J.P. 1937 gift...
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naga objects C789.jpg Tobacco box of mithan horn [and cane binding]. Kalyo-Kengyu, Noklak village. artefacts Kalyo-Kengyu Noklak Noklak 13cm Kalyo-Kengyu 5:151 Mills/ J.P. 23.11.1936 gift Pitt Rivers ...
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naga objects C790.jpg Small carved wooden group (cut from one block) representing a man and woman copulating in a squatting position. Hair and eyebrows in black, figures coloured pink all over. Woman ...
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naga objects C791.jpg Small orange-brown stained wooden figure of a seated man with hands on knees, arms curving outwards, carved of one piece of wood. Indigo waist cloth with pendant ends in front an...
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naga objects C792.jpg Human figurine, intended to be fastened to a basket, carved in the round from a block of light wood, the features in low relief roughed out (apparently); hands on hips below whic...
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naga objects C793.jpg Small carved human figure, naked female seated with one knee up; face reddened and ears pierced. Konyak, Mon village. [base not original] artefacts Konyak Mon 17.5cm Konyak Mon 5...
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naga objects C794.jpg Carved figure in wood of a seated woman. [With ear-rings, painted hair, arms and leg bands and pubic hair.] Konyak. artefacts Konyak 12.5cm Konyak 5:156 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Ri...
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naga objects C795.jpg Paired figures, male and female, from a dance basket. Konyak, ?Kamahu village. artefacts Konyak Kamahu Konyak Kamahu 5:157 Lambert/ E.T.D. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1936 19...
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naga objects C796.jpg Small carved wooden human head with 'tail' of dyed goat's hair attached to the base of the neck [perhaps originally attached to a basket]. artefacts 28.5cm 5:158 Cargill/ H.E. gi...
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