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:

Model female head of white wood, eyes of beetle elytra and mouth a coix seed; human hair. Carried on ceremonial occasions by a man who has killed a woman from a hostile village. E. Angami, Chizami village.

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artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Angami <Eastern

location:

Chizami

size:

16.5cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Angami (Eastern)
location:	Chizami

production:

refnum:

5:161

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	21.1.1934

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1686

note:

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