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:

corselet of palm-spathe plated with brass attached round the waist expanding into a wide plate with truncated points edged with cowries at top and bottom. Between them the metal is patterned with a roughly incised band of lozenges, three in a line, representing the inlay of [] shaped brass plates of the older specimens.

medium:

artefacts

size:

max.h. 28cm

production:

refnum:

4:87

collection:

person:

Hutton/ J.H.

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date:	1931
refnum:	1923.85.803

note:

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