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:

Wooden pendant perhaps derived from bull-roarers, painted like horn-bill feathers. Hung up by a rich man who has performed mithan-sacrifice. Konyak, Kaingam-Yaknyu (or Shua) village.

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artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Sowa (Kaingam-Yaknyu) Sowa (Shua)

size:

pendants 30cm, total 61cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Konyak
location:	Sowa (Kaingam-Yaknyu) Sowa (Shua)

production:

refnum:

4:238

collection:

person:	Hutton/ J.H.
date:	12.1926

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1923.85.495

note:

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