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:

Human figure effigy from a ruktua or burial platform. Face, chest and shoulders are tattooed. There is a small oblong brass plate on the chest. Red and white-barred hair plumes are inserted above the ears. A tuft of grass stems rises from the top of the head. [No tribe of origin specified.]

medium:

artefacts

size:

50cm

production:

refnum:

5:236-237

collection:

person:

Peal/ S.E.

acquirer:

form:	purchase
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date:	1897
refnum:	1897.67.15

note:

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