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:

Man's bark belt worn wound round waist with two broader tails behind. Decorated with vertical stripes round body and men and animal designs on tails by grinding indigo leaves, giving a dark green-black colour. Only head-takers are entitled to wear human figures on the belt. Konyak, Wakching village.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Wakching

size:

68cm (circumf.)

production:

ethnicgroup:	Konyak
location:	Wakching

production:

refnum:

2:200-201

collection:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	1937

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
refnum:	37.1038

note:

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