The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

colour photographs of Naga artefacts from various sources

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Wooden cross bow with wooden bow and stout twisted fibre cord bound with cane for the trigger notch. The stock is shaped like a rifle at the butt. Trigger and trigger block one of bone. A natural hole in butt is filled with bee's wax. ? S. Sangtam.

medium:

artefacts

size:

148 x 71cm

production:

ethnicgroup:

Sangtam (South)

production:

refnum:

962

collection:

person:

Hutton/ J.H.

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1923.85.993

note:

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