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 ring cut from the shankbone of a sambhur worn by men on the foreskin which is drawn through; the rest of the penis being pushed back. Often no other garment is worn. Tangkhul.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Tangkhul

size:

2cm (dia.)

production:

ethnicgroup:

Tangkhul

production:

refnum:

6:85

collection:

person:

Shakespear/ Col. L.W.

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date:	1923
refnum:	1923.13.36

note:

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