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:

Kampi, bull-roarer used to induce rain. This one was certainly used and was not symbolic or decorative. A fibre cord attached to a notch (not a hole as elsewhere) is used to whirl it around. Konyak, Tamlu village.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Tamlu

size:

45cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Konyak
location:	Tamlu

production:

refnum:

5:5

collection:

person:	Balfour
date:	11.11.1922

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1953.10.109

note:

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