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:

Large hair-pin of red wood with rounded end, carved at the top with 3 heads under a mushroom-shaped hat. Worn by a man who has taken a head, through the 'hair bun' at the back of the head. Old men still wear the mushroom hat in Ngangching, the next village, where it was made: of the same culture as S.W. Konyak. Choha village.

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artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Ngangching Choha

size:

28.5cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Konyak
location:	Ngangching

production:

refnum:

3:239

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	21.2.1934
location:	Choha

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1765

note:

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