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:

Love amulet of tiny feathers of a bird called tsentsu (?mythical), tied to a small piece of stick. "If a man can touch a woman's hand with this, she is his for life" (Mills, Lhota, p.168). Lhota, Yamhung Yanthamo village.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Lhota

location:

Yamhung Yanthamo

size:

2cm (stick)

production:

ethnicgroup:	Lhota
location:	Yamhung Yanthamo

production:

refnum:

6:84

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	5.1924

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.685

seealso:

Mills, Lhota Nagas, p.168

note:

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