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: Switch of hair (Shongshon). False hair mounted on a short piece of wood and worn by women with little hair. Wakching village, Konyak.
medium: artefacts
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
size:40cm
production:
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
refnum: 2:49
collection:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 1936-1937
acquirer:
form: gift
person: University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
refnum: 37.1061
note: descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated