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 composed of a block covered with bands of red and black clipped hair and surmounted with six serow horns on pegs. Long plumes of black human hair hang below the clipped fringes. Object appears to be ancient: red dyed hair is almost black and horns are damaged. Konyak, Wanching village.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Wanching

size:

85cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Konyak
location:	Wanching

production:

refnum:

6:115

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	5.1930

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1297

note:

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