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:

Large gourd water-vessel with long neck, mekwu, used in houses by all Nagas. Popularly called lao (Assamese); Sema name = ahogu. Those with straight necks are used in the house. Those with 'swan necks' for carrying rice-beer on the march. Angami.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Angami

size:

70cm

production:

ethnicgroup:

Angami

production:

refnum:

5:45

collection:

person:

Hutton/ J.H.

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date:	1919
refnum:	1923.84.73

note:

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