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:

A small piece of a skull contained in a ball of plaited cane that is fastened to a v-shaped branch of bamboo. This is the complementary share of the man who met the warriors and carried the head in. Attached to the front part of a skull, lacking lower jaw, adorned with [mithan] horns. This was the share of the first spear when two men were in at the death. Konyak, Yungya village.

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artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Yungya

production:

ethnicgroup:	Konyak
location:	Yungya

production:

refnum:

6:133

collection:

person:

Mills/ J.P.

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Manchester Museum
date:	1923
refnum:	0.3590, 0.3591

note:

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