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:

Representation of human head roughly carved in wood, hung up as ornament at the building of a new morung to show the fate of all enemies of that morung. [Piece of straw, perhaps remains of handle, stuck into hole in top of head.] Yimsungr, Kuthurr village.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Yimsungr

location:

Kuthurr

size:

17.5cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Yimsungr
location:	Kuthurr

production:

refnum:

5:165

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	18.11.1936

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1934.82.234

note:

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