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:

Warrior's headdress of hide, hair-covered. Decorated with wooden 'horns', hair fringes and 'tiger's eyes' made with coix seeds and beetle elytrae. Rengma, Thegwepenyebengyu village.

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artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Rengma

location:

Thegwepenyebengyu

size:

18cm (height of cap)

production:

ethnicgroup:	Rengma
location:	Thegwepenyebengyu

production:

refnum:

4:211

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	28.3.1936

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1934.82.30

note:

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