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:

Pointed lancet made of a slip of cane sliced thin and bent and bound with bark strip in a curve at the pointed end, the point hardened with fire. Seen in use by Mr Mills: a woman's arm was bandaged all the way down and a vein on the thumb joint lanced with this instrument. Zemi, Tesenmi village.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Zemi

location:

Josama (Tesenmi)

size:

9.5cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Zemi
location:	Josama (Tesenmi)

production:

refnum:

4:191

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	6.2.1931

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1564

note:

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