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:

Weeding hoe from the Tirap area. This is a remote and thinly-populated area with no smiths. So that this seems to be a home-made development of the bamboo loop hoe here. Iron blade set in nicks at base of haft formed by loop of bamboo.

medium:

artefacts

location:

Tirap

size:

50.5cm

production:

location:

Tirap

production:

refnum:

4:210

collection:

person:	Stonor/ Charles
date:	1948

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	68.10.23

note:

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