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: Brass necklace, almost circular, with 2 'heads' hanging down and 11 bosses, worn by a Wakching man who had taken 2 heads. Made in the unadministered district east of Wakching village. Konyak.
medium: artefacts
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
size:15cm (dia. of ring excl. heads)
production:
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
production:
refnum: 2:92
collection:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 1936-1937
acquirer:
form: gift
person: University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
refnum: 37.980
note: descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated