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: Pitsi-zha (priest's basket). Pedestal basket made by splitting the ends of a bamboo joint into thin strips and then weaving them together to form a band on a pedestal with expanding foot. Used by a village priest to collect 30 pieces of meat from each household doing genna during the sakrengi genna. Angami (Dzuno-kehemo group), Mima village.
medium: artefacts
ethnicgroup: Angami <Dzuno-kehemo
location: Mima
size:18.5cm
production:
ethnicgroup: Angami (Dzuno-kehemo)
location: Mima
production:
refnum: 4:235
collection:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
acquirer:
form: gift
person: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date: 1929
refnum: 1923.85.677
note: descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated