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: Seated wooden figure of a male Konyak with hat of cat fur and basket-work edged with yellow orchid stem with white tipped black feathers. Wooden hair plaque in hair bound round with red cloth. Ear ornaments of shaving tassels and ear-pin with red dyed hair plume. Red, green and black and white bead necklaces. Eye-pupils of small brass clamps. Made by the brother of the Ang of Longkhai village. Konyak.
medium: artefacts
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Longkhai
size:60cm (including hat)
production:
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Longkhai
production:
refnum: 5:169
collection:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 28.7.1929
acquirer:
form: gift
person: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum: 1923.85.745
note: descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated