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:

Amulet in the form of a strip of cane pointed at both ends with a tuft of fowl-feathers bound on below one end. It is set up where a stream is cutting in or earth slipping, to frighten the spirit. The feathers are a cheap substitute for a fowl. Rengma, Kotsenyu village.

medium:

artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Rengma

location:

Kotsenyu

size:

63.8cm

production:

ethnicgroup:	Rengma
location:	Kotsenyu

production:

refnum:

6:117

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	13.8.1930

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1279

note:

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