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:

Human figurine, intended to be fastened to a basket, carved in the round from a block of light wood, the features in low relief roughed out (apparently); hands on hips below which figure is finished with a narrow scutcheon-like terminal (? over which hair fringes were to be hung). Konyak, Chongwe village (Aopao).

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Aopao (Chongwe) Aopao

size:

26cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Konyak
location:	Aopao (Chongwe) Aopao

production:

refnum:

5:154

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	23.2.1934

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1770

note:

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