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 model of a Sema warrior, made by an Angami, the equipment made and put on by a Sema. Costume comprises shoulder sash amlakha, lengta ornamented with coix seeds, gauntlets similarly decorated, wooden imitation ivory armlets, boar's tusks necklet (wooden imitation), dao-carrier with sling or belt, panji-basket hanging at the back.
medium: artefacts
ethnicgroup: AngamiSema
size:75cm
production:
ethnicgroup: AngamiSema
production:
refnum: 4:17-18
collection:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
acquirer:
form: gift
person: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date: 1919
refnum: 1923.84.692
seealso: Hutton, Two Tours, plate 9:1
note: descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated