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:

Small ball or sphere representing the nest of the tree wasp; made of 3 small loops of bamboo strip at right angles, bound at the intersections with squares of thin bamboo-strip wrapping. Hung from the porches of houses. Sometimes real combs are attached. Perhaps formerly spirit traps. Eastern Angami, Leshemi (Cheroma) village.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Angami <Eastern

location:

Cheroma (Leshemi)

size:

9.5cm (dia.)

production:

ethnicgroup:	Angami (Eastern)
location:	Cheroma (Leshemi)

production:

refnum:

6:70

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	16.11.1933

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1651

note:

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