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:

Hat of cane-work with two [missing] black feathers and a large boar's tusk. A chaplet of long pig's bristles encircles the hat interspersed with sharp bristles dyed red. An ornament of plaited yellow cane or orchid-stem is in front attached round the 'chaplet' cane foundation. Phom.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Phom

size:

12cm (height of cap)

production:

ethnicgroup:

Phom

production:

refnum:

4:218

collection:

person:

Hutton/ J.H.

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date:	1919
refnum:	1923.84.722

note:

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