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:

Five small flat brush-like tattooing implements of thorn, bound between 2 shaped plates of bamboo, with leaf strip with tang to fix in a palm-stem handle; like an adze. Konyak, Tamlu village.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Tamlu

size:

max. 10.3cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Konyak
location:	Tamlu

production:

refnum:

4:183

collection:

person:	Balfour
date:	1922

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1936.4.13

note:

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