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: Bismar, used by Wangpo, a brass caster, for weighing scraps of brass, in making brass armlets. Horizontal arm is cut with six grooves near one end to which is attached a small wicker basket containing a crucible of clay for the hot metal. Konyak, Wakching village.
medium: artefacts
person: Wangpo/ of Wakching
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
size:29cm (arm)
production:
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
production:
refnum: 6:56
collection:
person: Balfour/ Henry
date: 16.11.1922
acquirer:
form: gift
person: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum: 1953.10.65
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note: descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated