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:

Warrior's hip ornament formed of two carved heads side by side each with a pair of wooden horns. Long plumes of frizzy black-brown human hair hang below fringed with lines of clipped red, black and white hair bound above with a band of plaited red cane strip. Konyak, Chingphoi village.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Chingphoi

size:

74cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Konyak
location:	Chingphoi

production:

refnum:

6:95-96

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	8.1930

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1300

note:

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