The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

published - 'Notes on the Wild Tribes Inhabiting the So-Called Naga Hills, on our North-East Frontier of India', by Col. R.G. Woodthorpe, 1881

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gongs and bells; walking sticks

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notes

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Mutania Sermamen Borduaria Namsangia

production:

person:	Woodthorpe/ R.G.
date:	1881
refnum:	given at a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, 1881

text:

(79) Gongs, which probably come indirectly from Burmah, are largely used by these tribes, and they cast bells in little clay moulds, the material being apparently a kind of gunmetal, and occasionally brass. The women carry long iron walking staves foliated at the upper end. Another lighter and prettier walking-stick among the Yangmun people is made of sago palm, decorated with brass rings and furnished with an iron spike.

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