The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

colour photographs of Naga artefacts from various sources

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caption: Earthenware pot with perforated bottom. Outside decorated with pitted design in stripes. ? used for steaming white rice, it is put on top of another pot of boiling water. According to Prof. J.H. Hutton, more likely used for distilling. Wakching village, made at Chingtang village, Konyak.
medium: artefacts
person: Hutton/ J.H.
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Chingtang Wakching
size:28x26x15 (dia. at top)cm
production:
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Chingtang
production:
refnum: 2:31-32
collection:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 1936-1937
location: Wakching
acquirer:
form: gift
person: University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
refnum: 37.1037
note: descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated