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:

War helmet of plaited rattan cane with strips of bear hide and chin strap. Konyak. [Subsequent label states: 'Kalyo Kengyu', but no evidence and not signed. Fur is now skin only. A. West: cf. very similar Abor helmets.]

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak Abor

size:

24cm (dia.)

production:

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

production:

refnum:

3:231

collection:

person:	Butler/ Capt. John
date:	1869-1875

acquirer:

form:	gift from Cotton, S.H.
person:	University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
date:	1919
refnum:	19.103.9

note:

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