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: Carved wooden standing figure of a woman with a child on her back. The hair is blackened, with tufts of head and pubic hair stuck on. Tattoo marks are painted on the face and legs and a cross on the chest. The nipples are blackened. Konyak, Punkhung village.
medium: artefacts
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Punkhung
size:31cm
production:
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Punkhung
production:
refnum: 5:166-167
collection:
person: Pawsey/ C.R.
acquirer:
form: gift
person: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date: 8.1929
refnum: 1929.31.4
note: descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated