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: Left: carving of sitting man, "breast ornament worn by the brother of the Ang, Bei-Shon, Konyak, Shiong village" (collector), on bead chain. Right: "carved wood head worn by a Tanhai man, carved by the brother of the Ang of Longkhai" (collector), [with bone beads].
caption: decoration
medium: artefacts
person: Bei-Shon/ of Shiong
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Shiong Longkhai
size:36cm, carving 13x5cm; 33.5cm, carving 8x6cm
production:
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Shiong Longkhai
production:
refnum: 3:54
collection:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 1936-1937
acquirer:
form: gift
person: Museum of Mankind, London
refnum: 1944.As.3.311944.As.3.54
note: descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated