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:

Small carved wooden group (cut from one block) representing a man and woman copulating in a squatting position. Hair and eyebrows in black, figures coloured pink all over. Woman faces over her right shoulder and has a necklace of small red cylindrical beads. Man wears red wool ear ornaments and a wooden hair-piece hair wrapped in red cloth. Konyak.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

size:

14cm

production:

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

production:

refnum:

5:152

collection:

person:

Hutton/ J.H.

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date:	1935
refnum:	1923.85.969

note:

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