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:

Wooden model of cotton gin or mangle, for clearing cotton of seeds, with rollers carved into helices on one side, worked by a handle. Angami name: meza tsang-si (i.e. 'Kacha Naga rolling stick'). Made by the Kacha (probably copied from cotton gins of Assam plains) and sold to the Angami.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Angami Kacha

size:

45.5cm

production:

ethnicgroup:

Kacha

production:

refnum:

5:175

collection:

person:	Hutton/ J.H.
ethnicgroup:	Angami

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date:	2.1915
refnum:	1923.84.126

note:

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