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:

Unmarried girl's breastcloth or stomacher of black, edged at the ends with zigzags of red and white cotton. A fringe one end ornamented with 6 large green buprestid beetles. Surface of cloth ornament with trefoils of cowries and round tufts of red-dyed dog's hair between. [Detail.] Zemi, Benroumi village.

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artefacts

location:

Nakama (Benroumi)

production:

ethnicgroup:	Zemi
location:	Nakama (Benroumi)

production:

refnum:

5:117

collection:

person:	Mills
date:	10.10.1930

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1416

note:

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