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: Hair ornament, flat piece of wood with 4 human heads carved at one end and a number of red-dyed goat's hair tassels. Worn in knot at the back of the head by head-takers. Chongwe, village, Konyak.
medium: artefacts
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Aopao (Chongwe)
size:31x4cm
production:
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Aopao (Chongwe)
production:
refnum: 2:47-48
collection:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 1936-1937
acquirer:
form: gift
person: University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
refnum: 37.1053
note: descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated