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:

Composite basket, plaited bamboo with five carved wooden skulls, tufts of vegetable fibre and tusk; cotton band with designs in red, blue and yellow. Owner has taken heads. Konyak.

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artefacts

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Konyak

size:

35cm

production:

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

production:

refnum:

3:25-26

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Museum of Mankind, London
date:	1954
refnum:	1954.As7.70
note:	from the Wellcome collection, which obtained it at auction in 1921

note:

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