The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

colour photographs of Naga artefacts from various sources

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Necklace, ng-kui-pewo, of blue glass and yellow and orange stone beads in a double string, with on each side two tubular shell beads of conch-shell (columella), 1 rectangular brownish bead called deo-moni (=God-beads) and found in Nepal (possibly emanating from China and much prized by the Nagas) and 1 long shell pendant cut from a shell of conch type. Kacha.

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artefacts

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Kacha

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Kacha

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6:54

collection:

person:	Reid/ Sir Robert
date:	1937-1942

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1946.7.16

note:

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