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: Clasp knife, handle of buffalo horn (met shok). Big triangular blade with etched margin. Mainly used for cutting betel nuts and bark. Konyak, Wakching village.
medium: artefacts
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
size:28 x 8cm
production:
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
production:
refnum: 2:154
collection:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 1936-1937
acquirer:
form: gift
person: University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
refnum: 37.1039
note: descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated