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Bamboo head-basket, decorated with dyed red hair and hair taken from a head-taker at Chinlong in the 1890s, attacked by Changs. Worn behind, round the waist. From Mokokchung. [Cantlie describes this in his 'Memoir' as "a tiny conical basket of woven cane for carrying betel nut or tobacco strapped to ones waist to which was attached the long hair of a woman whose head had been taken in some trans-frontier village". Noted as still being in his collection] |
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descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated |