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:

Two tattooing needles of quill in bamboo holders; the quills being bound together with blue thread. The bamboo holder when used is set in s small heavy handle. Konyak Yungpang. Three tattooing instruments of thorns bound in bamboo. Konyak, Shiong and Tamlu villages. Tattooing adze of thorns between splints of cane bound with fibre strip. Ao, Chantongia village.

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artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak Ao

location:

Yungphong (Yungpang) Shiong Tamlu Chantongia

size:

max. 28cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Konyak Ao
location:	Yungphong (Yungpang) Shiong Tamlu Chantongia

production:

refnum:

4:184

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.Balfour
date:	11.1922
note:	(Balfour artefacts)

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date:	1923
refnum:	1928.69.503-504 (2 needles); 1936.4.10-12 (3 instruments); 1936.4.9 (adze)
note:	(Mills artefacts)

note:

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