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:

Iron-bladed weeding-hoe with y-shaped haft of thick-walled bamboo, black-lacquered; the cane binding red-stained. Given by a young man to his sweetheart. Ao, Merangkong village.

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artefacts

ethnicgroup:

location:

Merangkong

size:

34cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Ao
location:	Merangkong

production:

refnum:

6:61

collection:

person:	Balfour/ Henry
date:	1922

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.35.17

note:

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