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.
medium: artefacts
ethnicgroup: 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