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:

Monochord lute with body of coconut shell overlaid with spathe lashed on, and with wooden neck terminating in carved conventionalised hornbill's head. The string is of twisted fibre. Konyak, Kongan village.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Kongan

size:

67.5cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Konyak
location:	Kongan

production:

refnum:

5:30-31

collection:

person:

Hutton/ J.H.

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date:	1929
refnum:	1923.85.665

note:

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