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:

Hook for extracting meat from a cooking pot with ?palm branch wood handle, the hook of iron with 2 curved prongs socketed on. The owner saw a similar hook in a Thado Kuki house and got this made at Akhegwo (S. Sangtam). Naked Rengma, Melori village.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Kuki <Thado Sangtam <Southern Rengma <Naked

location:

Primi (Akhegwo) Meluri (Melori)

size:

66cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Sangtam (Southern)
location:	Primi (Akhegwo)

production:

refnum:

4:125

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	4.2.1933
ethnicgroup:	Rengma (Naked)
location:	Meluri (Melori)

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1595

note:

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