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:

Neck pendant worn by a man who has taken a head, carved of wood with an original attempt at realism in the rendering of the mouth which is hollowed behind with teeth carved inside the lips. Hair, lips and eye-brows blackened. In the ears are 2 large rounded-lozenge shaped brass pendants, embossed with a rayed embo [sic] in the centres. Konyak, Longkhai village.

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artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Longkhai

size:

8.5cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Konyak
location:	Longkhai

production:

refnum:

5:160

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	15.2.1934

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1711

note:

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