The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

colour photographs of Naga artefacts from various sources

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Body cloth of dark indigo with sparse white lines and three equidistant (one central) narrow bands ornamented with red and black needle work, leaving white lozenges. Worn by the daughter of rich parents but discarded when the husband has done mithan sacrifice. Sema, Sheyepu village.

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artefacts

ethnicgroup:

Sema

location:

Sheyepu

production:

ethnicgroup:	Sema
location:	Sheyepu

production:

refnum:

6:170-171

collection:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	17.9.1933

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1928.69.1681

note:

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