The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

colour photographs of Naga artefacts from various sources

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Cotton cloth of a man who has taken heads, done mithan sacrifice and killed tiger and elephant. The latest elaboration of the wax-painted band from the traditional pattern, now changing almost annually: design includes cocks, tigers, elephants, mithan (and heads), tiger's eyes. Ao, Longsa village. [2 strips plus central painted strip plus one painted border.]

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artefacts

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location:

Longsa Longsa

size:

153 x 140cm

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refnum:

5:87-90

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	15.5.1931

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1411

note:

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