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:

Decorated skull of monkey, perhaps Macacus Rhesus, the eyeholes filled with pith. Worn by Konyak headhunters. [15x9cm. [Different authorities suggest: worn round head as a necklace - cf.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

size:

15x9cm

production:

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

production:

refnum:

2:96-97

collection:

person:

Hutton/ J.H.

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
date:	1937
refnum:	36.310

note:

descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated