The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

colour photographs of Naga artefacts from various sources

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Thatsu breast ornament with cloth band for the neck, ornamented with double rows of cowrie faces and fringed on the outside with long black hair with a short fringe of red-dyed goat's hair on the top. Pendant is a concave sided oblong of wood decorated with bands of ground cowries, and black and red hair with a red hair fringe. A very fine example. Angami.

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artefacts

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95 cm

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ethnicgroup:

Angami

production:

refnum:

974

collection:

person:	Hutton/ J.H.
date:	1929

acquirer:

form:	gift
person:	Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
refnum:	1923.85.946

note:

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