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 head piece; bamboo band decorated on the outside with red and yellow plaited vegetable fibre, cowrie shells and 2 horns; from the centre is a piece of bone with hair attached to one end.

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artefacts

size:

16cm (span)

production:

ethnicgroup:

[not known]

production:

refnum:

3:36

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Museum of Mankind, London
date:	1954
refnum:	1954.As.7.96
note:	from the Wellcome Collection

note:

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