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: Symbolic message conveying to Mr. Hutton a challenge to personal combat, sent by the chief of Saporr, consisting of a chilli transfixed by a splinter of wood (meaning: "if you do not fight you are only fit to be impaled like a sacrificial dog or a chicken"), wrapped in cloth. Yachungrr.
medium: artefacts
person: Hutton/ J.H.
ethnicgroup: Yachungrr
size:4cm
production:
ethnicgroup: Yachungrr
production:
refnum: 6:86
collection:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
acquirer:
form: gift
person: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
date: 1915
refnum: 1923.84.199
note: descriptions derived from original source material unless in square brackets or otherwise stated