The Nagas

naga objects C797.jpg Carved head of orange-brown wood, worn by a man who has taken a head: mouth is carefully carved with teeth within the lips and tinted cochineal colour. Two curved projections are...
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naga objects C798.jpg Neck pendant worn by a man who has taken a head, carved of wood with an original attempt at realism in the rendering of the mouth which is hollowed behind with teeth carved insid...
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naga objects C799.jpg Model female head of white wood, eyes of beetle elytra and mouth a coix seed; human hair. Carried on ceremonial occasions by a man who has killed a woman from a hostile village. ...
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naga objects C800.jpg naga objects C801.jpg Small ovoid tobacco box with flat top and bottom carved from a single piece of wood, in high relief with a ring of human figures holding hands with tigers, ...
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naga objects C802.jpg Woman's pipe. [Bamboo bowl, separate stem, fixed in resin attachment to bowl, with separate pipe cleaner.] Lhota, Yamhung village. artefacts Lhota Yamhung Lhota Yamhung 5:164 Mil...
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naga objects C803.jpg Representation of human head roughly carved in wood, hung up as ornament at the building of a new morung to show the fate of all enemies of that morung. [Piece of straw, perhaps ...
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naga objects C804.jpg naga objects C805.jpg Carved wooden standing figure of a woman with a child on her back. The hair is blackened, with tufts of head and pubic hair stuck on. Tattoo marks are paint...
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naga objects C806.jpg Wooden carving painted red of 2 human heads on an oblong base. [Perhaps a basket decoration.] artefacts 24cm 5:168 Cargill/ H.E. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1898 1898.10.10 f...
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naga objects C807.jpg naga objects C810.jpg naga objects C1298.jpg Seated wooden figure of a male Konyak with hat of cat fur and basket-work edged with yellow orchid stem with white tipped black feath...
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naga objects C808.jpg Carved wooden model of a man showing details of costume etc. [Strips of paper used to denote cowrie shells.] Angami, ?Kohima village. artefacts Angami Kohima 54.5cm Angami Kohima...
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naga objects C809.jpg naga objects C1299.jpg Native made model of a Sema bride, made by two Sema as a consort for the Sema warrior [also in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford]. The costume consists of wai...
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naga objects C811.jpg Model of a wooden 'mangle' or gin for extracting the seed from cotton. The rollers are cut into inter-playing helices, the projecting ends on one side. Dzuno-Kemena Angami, Kuzam...
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naga objects C812.jpg Wooden model of cotton gin or mangle, for clearing cotton of seeds, with rollers carved into helices on one side, worked by a handle. Angami name: meza tsang-si (i.e. 'Kacha Naga...
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naga objects C813.jpg Spindle with light wooden base for spinning fine string for hats. The spindle is suspended and spun with the hands. Men do the work. Lhota, Lungtsung village. artefacts Lhota Lun...
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naga objects C814.jpg naga objects C815.jpg naga objects C816.jpg naga objects C817.jpg Spear for dances, parade etc, not used for war. Konyak. artefacts Konyak 158cm Konyak 5:184-187 Peal/ S.E. purch...
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naga objects C818.jpg naga objects C819.jpg naga objects C820.jpg naga objects C821.jpg Warrior's spear with small socketted lozenge blade and spiked butt ornamented with long hair about central part ...
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naga objects C822.jpg [Copper alloy ring, perhaps worn on thumb.] artefacts 2cm (h) 5:208 purchase private collection 1984 Ursula Graham Bower's film of Kabui shows similar ring descriptions derived f...
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naga objects C823.jpg Bridal skirt of rich man's daughter, divided lengthwise in three parts, black, light-grey and white, with black and red lines and embroidered geometrical patterns of red and gree...
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naga objects C824.jpg Warrior's cloth, asu-keda-pi, which belonged to Inato of Lumitsami, the principal Sema chief of his time. The cowrie circles denote success in head-hunting. Cloth is decorated wi...
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naga objects C825.jpg Unmarried girl's cloth of dark indigo with two marginal and a central narrow stripe of light blue ornament with red wool. From the side stripes run transverse bands of zigzags an...
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naga objects C826.jpg Bridal skirt of rich man's daughter. Black, central panel of blue, red, yellow glass beads; groups of cowries in threes; and thin red stripes. [1 piece.] Sema, Shehepu village. a...
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naga objects C827.jpg Skirt of a girl whose parents have not done the mithan sacrifice, of black with a grey margin on one side. Zig-zag and other patterns along margin and lines ornamented with needl...
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naga objects C829.jpg Rich man's oblong apron (lengta) of dull indigo material with a double row of ground cowries along the edges and on broad central band. Beside latter are rows of 6 cowrie rosette...
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naga objects C830.jpg Young man's lengta of light material, the flap ornamented with a chevron design in black paint with rayed circles (?eyes) interspersed. Above it are two figures of squatting dogs...
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naga objects C831.jpg Flute, bamboo, 'diaphragm' type with bamboo 'cap'. Konyak, Tamlu village. artefacts Konyak Tamlu 20cm Konyak Tamlu 5:218 Balfour/ Henry 1922 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1953....
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naga objects C832.jpg Bamboo flute. Ao, Chantongia village. artefacts Ao Chantongia 44cm Ao Chantongia 5:219 Balfour/ Henry 1922 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1953.10.121 Balfour diary 8.11.1922 des...
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naga objects C833.jpg Flageolet of simple form, open at the end, with 3 finger-stops, and closed at the top. A short section of bamboo is fitted over the node just above a slit for the voice. Konyak, ...
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naga objects C834.jpg Transverse bamboo flute. Konyak, Tamlu village, collected while camping by the Dikhu River. artefacts Konyak Tamlu Dikhu R. 64.5cm Konyak Tamlu Dikhu R. 5:221 Balfour/ Henry 1922...
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naga objects C835.jpg Flageolet of dark purple stained bamboo with cylindrical mouthpiece fitting outside and forming the air duct to the sound hole. It has four finger-stops. Used by young men. Zemi ...
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naga objects C836.jpg Three whistles or blocked-end flutes, khu, of same length and tuned to the same note, cut from small bamboo and loosely tied together. Brown. A boy usually makes more than one at...
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naga objects C837.jpg Model of a wooden gong or xylophone in the form of a high narrow trough with a long projection (oblong in cross-section) at each end, one of which is carved into a mithan head bl...
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naga objects C838.jpg Alarm gong made of the inter-node of a large bamboo with terminal projecting handles on the closing nodes. there are two rough bamboo strikers. From a tree-house where a sentry k...
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naga objects C839.jpg Jews harp of bamboo with one end attached to a cane cylinder worn in the ear: used by both sexes. At the other end is the jerking string with a bunch of bamboo shavings tied to t...
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naga objects C840.jpg Drinking horn made from an unusually large horn of the water-buffalo. Angami, Kidima village. artefacts Angami Kidima 65cm (span) Angami Kidima 5:229 Mills/ J.P. 1925 gift Pitt R...
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naga objects C841.jpg Bear-skin guard for the right wrist, the left being protected by the shield. Kalyo-Kengyu, Panso village. artefacts Kalyo-Kengyu Panso 15cm Kalyo-Kengyu Panso 5:230 Mills/ J.P. 4...
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naga objects C842.jpg Modelled head, for placing on a ledge on the house front. Apparently for ornament only. E. Angami, Chizami village. artefacts Angami <Eastern Chizami 16cm Angami (Eastern) Chizam...
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naga objects C843.jpg Carved wooden standing figure of a man with a gun, with tattooed design on the chest, and heavy ivory armlets on arms. Red wool ear ornaments in ears. Arms articulated at elbows....
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naga objects C844.jpg Carved wooden figure of a female originally painted pink, with large ears with pierced lobes from which hang earrings of a short column of coloured beads with red wool tassels, t...
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naga objects C845.jpg Carved figure of wood, representing an old man standing, with a beard of grey bristles, and hair on the head capped with silver paper. The mouth is a small cowrie inset, and the ...
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naga objects C846.jpg Human head of clay. artefacts Angami <Eastern Chizami 14cm Angami (Eastern) Chizami 5:235 Mills/ J.P. 9.1936 gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1934.82.184 descriptions derived from...
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naga objects C847.jpg naga objects C848.jpg Human figure effigy from a ruktua or burial platform. Face, chest and shoulders are tattooed. There is a small oblong brass plate on the chest. Red and whit...
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naga objects C849.jpg Rain-shield of palm leaves covered with plaited cane-work. Kalyo-Kengyu, Pangsha village artefacts Kalyo-Kengyu Pangsha 85cm Kalyo-Kengyu Pangsha 6:1 Mills/ J.P. 1937 gift Pitt R...
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naga objects C850.jpg Native portrait-carving of the sub-divisional officer at Mokokchung, [presumably J.H. Hutton]. artefacts Hutton/ J.H. Konyak Mokokchung 20cm Konyak Mokokchung 6:2 Hutton/ J.H. 19...
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naga objects C851.jpg Wooden figure of the Great Hornbill, hung up in the morung. Ao. artefacts Ao 28cm Ao 6:3 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1917 1923.84.313 descriptions derived from o...
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naga objects C852.jpg Very highly conventionalised representation of the Malayan hornbill, cut from a long flat piece of wood: pegged to the front wall of a house as an ornament. E. Angami, Lekromi vi...
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naga objects C853.jpg Carved and painted figure of a hornbill from a morung. Konyak, Tamlung village. artefacts Konyak Tamlung 33cm Konyak Tamlung 6:5 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1922...
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naga objects C854.jpg Sash made of bark fibre with ornaments woven in wool. Used by men as a part of their ceremonial dress for carrying a basket on the left hip. Presented to donor by Wankau, the Ang...
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naga objects C855.jpg Phom bag; the design is a copy of the traditional Phom warrior's body cloth. artefacts 32.5x30cm, excl. strap Phom 6:11 Ganguli/ Milada 1984 descriptions derived from original so...
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naga objects C856.jpg Sema girl's headband, made of cane dyed red and yellow orchid stalk with tassels, of dog's hair. Zunheboto village. artefacts 20cms (dia.) Sema 6:12 Ganguli/ Milada 1976 Zunhebot...
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naga objects C857.jpg Rongmei dancing belt, presented by Rani Gaidinliu artefacts Gaidinliu 130 x 6.5cm, excl. strings Rongmei 6:14 Ganguli/ Milada 1973 descriptions derived from original source mater...
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naga objects C858.jpg [Bamboo spoon] artefacts 18.5cm 6:16 Ganguli/ Milada descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated
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naga objects C859.jpg Sema ear ornaments, made of goat's hair dyed red and orchid stems. Zunheboto village. Worn with headband artefacts 10cm Sema Ganguli/ Milada 1976 Zunheboto 6:17 descriptions deri...
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naga objects C860.jpg Boy's dao holder, with carvings of tigers and heads. Phom, Hukpang village. artefacts 7x4.5cm Phom Hukpong (Hukpang) 6:19 Ganguli/ Milada 1965 Ganguli, Pilgrimage to the Nagas, c...
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naga objects C861.jpg Two bamboo combs, Chang; gift of village elders in Hakchang village. artefacts 11.5cm Chang 6:20 Ganguli/ Milada 1975 Hakchang descriptions derived from original source material ...
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naga objects C862.jpg Carved wooden stick with little heads at both ends, stuck in a man's hair-knot. Konyak, Chui village, Ang clan. artefacts Ang clan/ Chui Konyak Chi (Chui) 6:21 Ganguli/ Milada Ga...
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naga objects C863.jpg Konyak wooden head, worn by successful warriors as a pendant. Purchased from the Nagaland Handloom and Handicrafts Development Corporation, Dimapur. artefacts 8.5cm Konyak 6:22 G...
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naga objects C864.jpg Two wooden heads, worn by warriors as pendants. Konyak. Purchased from the Nagaland Handloom and Handicrafts Development Corporation, Dimapur. artefacts 8.5, 9.5cm Konyak 6:24 Ga...
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naga objects C865.jpg Two jew's harps made of bamboo. Used as a musical instrument and to drive away insects in the fields when the rice begins to ripen. Angami, Kohima village. artefacts 17.5cm., max...
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naga objects C866.jpg a carved pipe from Yacham. Phom artefacts 19cm Phom 6:26 Ganguli/ Milada Yacham Ganguli, Pilgrimage to the Nagas, p.219 descriptions derived from original source material unless ...
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naga objects C867.jpg Chang headband worn by women over their head and twisted round the plait to protect their hair from dust while winnowing grain. Tuensang village. artefacts 135 x 15.5cm, excl. st...
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naga objects C868.jpg Middle band attached to a man's ceremonial body cloth (tsungkoteps) worn by givers of Feasts of Merit. Figures of mithan, sacrificial human heads, are supplemented by pictures of...
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naga objects C869.jpg Lengta (apron) which would be worn only by successful warriors. Acquired in 1976, the last specimen made by a man who brought back enemy heads in 1956 from an attack on undergrou...
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naga objects C870.jpg Sash made of goat's hair, cane and yellow orchid. Sema, Zunheboto village. artefacts Sema Zunheboto 6:31 Ganguli/ Milada 1972 descriptions derived from original source material u...
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naga objects C871.jpg Skirt worn by Rani Gaidinliu on special occasions and presented by her to donor. Rongmei. artefacts Gaidinliu 176 x 148cm Rongmei 6:33 Ganguli/ Milada descriptions derived from o...
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naga objects C872.jpg Pair of cane-work ear-plugs with coloured hair-fringes, worn by men. Banpara, Sangloi, Joboka, Kamlung. artefacts Banfera (Banpara) Sangloi Joboka Horu Kamlung (Kamlung) 19cm Ban...
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naga objects C873.jpg Carved coiled snake, pui-lengpo-pukh, hung up in the morung, ornamented with black dots and bars. [Made for collector.] Phom. artefacts Phom 23cm Phom 6:50 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt...
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naga objects C874.jpg Ground stone celt mounted in cane-work as an amulet. Lasa (Borduria), North Konyak. artefacts Konyak <North Borduria 14.5cm Konyak (North) 6:51 Pawsey/ Charles R. gift Pitt River...
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naga objects C875.jpg Spoon of white wood for rice beer. The bowl is round and saucer-like with a small foot: the handle carved in curious curves. Flat on the top and ridged beneath with flat edges. A...
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naga objects C876.jpg Hammer of bamboo, sivu, used in hair cutting, the hair is tapped with the hammer over the edge of a dao. Angami. artefacts Angami 28cm Angami 6:53 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers M...
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naga objects C877.jpg Necklace, ng-kui-pewo, of blue glass and yellow and orange stone beads in a double string, with on each side two tubular shell beads of conch-shell (columella), 1 rectangular bro...
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naga objects C878.jpg Slow-match, amisu, made of threshed millet heads bound with cane. Carried to the fields or kept in houses for lighting pipes and keeping away mosquitoes. Sema. artefacts Sema 29....
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naga objects C879.jpg Bismar, used by Wangpo, a brass caster, for weighing scraps of brass, in making brass armlets. Horizontal arm is cut with six grooves near one end to which is attached a small wi...
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naga objects C880.jpg Pair of greaves for protecting the legs in fighting (with cuirass and helmet). Rengma, Tesophenyu village. artefacts Rengma Tesophenyu 23, 25 cm Rengma Tesophenyu 6:57 Mills/ J.P...
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naga objects C881.jpg naga objects C882.jpg Oblong lidded basket of cane twill-work containing 10 copy books, a small note-book and a large register more or less full of characters supposed to be writ...
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naga objects C883.jpg Iron-bladed weeding-hoe with y-shaped haft of thick-walled bamboo, black-lacquered; the cane binding red-stained. Given by a young man to his sweetheart. Ao, Merangkong village. ...
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naga objects C884.jpg Boy's or woman's ear-ornament of 2 tail feathers of the racket-tailed drango and parrot feather. Ao. artefacts Ao 40cm Ao 6:62 Mills/ J.P. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1928 19...
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naga objects C885.jpg Necklet of dyed porcupine quills, with coix seed and quill "beads". Phom. artefacts Phom 36.5cm , quills 4-7cm Phom 6:63 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1924 1923.85...
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naga objects C886.jpg Pipe with nicotine-catcher of bamboo, with metal-lined wooden bowl and decorations of red and yellow cane work. artefacts 13.4 (h.) [not known] 6:64 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers...
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naga objects C887.jpg Dao-carrier carved with human or tiger figures and heads with narrow cloth tasselled belt, ornamented with a circle and crosses of cowries. It has a bone toggle. Given by Lentino...
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naga objects C888.jpg Bamboo tobacco-pipe with burnt pattern on bowl and stem copied from warrior tattoo design. Chang. artefacts Chang 15cm (stem), 8cm (bowl) Chang 6:66 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers...
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naga objects C889.jpg Four bamboo pegs for tree-climbing. Konyak, Kongan village. artefacts Konyak Kongan 20.5cm (max.) Konyak Kongan Hansjorg Mayer: Abor 6:67 Hutton/ J.H. 2.1928 gift Pitt Rivers Mus...
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naga objects C890.jpg Tobacco pipe with wooden stem carved with relief figures of two huluks and two men(?). The bowl is of bamboo with poker-work designs. Chang. artefacts Chang 13.5cm (stem), 7.5cm ...
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naga objects C891.jpg Ear ornament set, in bamboo tube, for young man, comprising: a) two pith ear plugs called ngyia, imitating conch-spines, b) small fans pf red miniver feathers called ngeruinami (...
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naga objects C892.jpg Small ball or sphere representing the nest of the tree wasp; made of 3 small loops of bamboo strip at right angles, bound at the intersections with squares of thin bamboo-strip w...
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naga objects C893.jpg Wooden spoon, lukki, for drinking rice beer, with concise oval bowl set transversely and handle with greater width in vertical plane. This type is the form usually given by a bri...
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naga objects C894.jpg Finishing tool for making daos: a chisel-like piece of iron set in a wooden handle. Konyak, Tobu village. artefacts Konyak Tobu 23.5cm Konyak Tobu 6:72 Mills/ J.P. 16.4.1923 1928...
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naga objects C895.jpg Wooden tobacco-pipe of calabash shape, lacquered. The stem is woven over with red and yellow cane and bound with brass wire where cane mouth-piece is inserted. Ao. artefacts Ao 2...
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naga objects C896.jpg Painted clay figure of a mithan. Eastern Angami, Khizabami (Khisami) village. artefacts Angami <Eastern Chizami (Khizabami) 14.6cm Angami (Eastern) Chizami (Khizabami) 6:74 Hutto...
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naga objects C897.jpg Piece of stone with roughly ground facets, used as a rubber for cleaning the body. Angami, Chazubami village. artefacts Angami Chezumi (Chazubami) 9cm Angami Chezumi (Chazubami) ...
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naga objects C898.jpg Snare for jungle fowl of notched bamboo with cane noose tied to the end of a string. Made by Chamenthang. Sangtam, Mangaki village. artefacts Chamenthang/ of Mangaki Sangtam Mang...
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naga objects C899.jpg Bamboo pot, for holding black waxy pigment (probably that used for patterns on textiles, but no details supplied); cut from a single bamboo internode. Ao. Longsa village. artefac...
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naga objects C900.jpg Young woman's ear tufts of red goat hair fringe with cotton and yellow orchid stem binding. Made by the same method as that employed in the Sema village of Seromi. Lhota. artefac...
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naga objects C901.jpg Message conveying a challenge from Yongnyu village to Chimang village, consisting of a panji (signifying war) and split chilli (pain of decapitation), wrapped in cloth, bound wit...
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naga objects C902.jpg Love amulet of tiny feathers of a bird called tsentsu (?mythical), tied to a small piece of stick. "If a man can touch a woman's hand with this, she is his for life" (Mills, Lhot...
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naga objects C903.jpg Small ring cut from the shankbone of a sambhur worn by men on the foreskin which is drawn through; the rest of the penis being pushed back. Often no other garment is worn. Tangkh...
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naga objects C904.jpg Symbolic message conveying to Mr. Hutton a challenge to personal combat, sent by the chief of Saporr, consisting of a chilli transfixed by a splinter of wood (meaning: "if you do...
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naga objects C905.jpg Two knotted tally-strings recording number of days. From the shorter, knots were cut off daily by a traveller to the number of days estimated for the journey. Unlocalised. artefa...
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naga objects C906.jpg Wooden tinder-box with flint and steel and tinder. Ao. artefacts Ao 8.3cm (box) Ao 6:88 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 11.1914 1923.84.83 descriptions derived from ...
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naga objects C907.jpg Zadham, cooking pot for rice; globular, rounded bottom, grey ware; two handles below flat rim. Broken and mended. Tangkhul, Nungbi Khunao. artefacts Tangkhul Nungbi Khunou (Nungb...
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naga objects C908.jpg Eight-pronged implement of bamboo, lida, used in threshing grain, each prong knobbed with a section of the node. Angami. artefacts Angami 69cm Angami 6:92 Hutton/ J.H. gift Pitt ...
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