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:

Wooden tally stick, notches cut at one end; Zemi Naga, Golomi village; "used to keep count of number of households to which young men of morung must distribute shares of pork at annual festival. The big knobs are each 8 households, small are 1 each" (collector).

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Zemi

location:

Chama (Golomi)

size:

26cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Zemi
location:	Chama (Golomi)

production:

refnum:

3:49

collection:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf
date:	1936-1937

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Museum of Mankind, London
refnum:	1944.As3.68

note:

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