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 rice beer jug of bamboo with burnt-out mouth, and upper node perforated with a small hole at the opposite end from the tip. The cortex is thick and carved in high relief with 4 standing men having the mithan horn design tattooed on the breast. Below are 2 opposed tigers and above 2 plesiosaurus-like creatures biting each other's long necks. Phom, Ourangkong village.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Phom

location:

Urangkong (Ourangkong)

size:

42cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Phom
location:	Urangkong (Ourangkong)

production:

refnum:

4:149

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	28.2.1934

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1779

note:

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