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:

Warrior's cloth embroidered with squares and red-dyed dog's hair and decorated with large circles of cowries, with tassel (Sangtam type) at one corner of wood covered with coix seeds, fringes of hair and strings each tipped with a half coix seed or green elytra of a buprestid beetle. This corner of the cloth is thrown over the left shoulder. [three strips.] Yimtsungr

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Yimtsungr

size:

150 x 115cm

production:

ethnicgroup:

Yimtsungr

production:

refnum:

5:135

collection:

person:

Hutton/ J.H.

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date:	1924
refnum:	1923.85.257

note:

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