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:

Dao, large knife with rather triangular blade and handle covered with cane-work dyed red, and yellow orchid skin. Tassels at end of red-dyed goats hair.

medium:

artefacts

size:

73x max.w. 9cm

production:

ethnicgroup:

Sema

production:

refnum:

2:146

collection:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	1936-1937

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
refnum:	37.1065

note:

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