- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Man’s ceremonial circular headgear made of cane and boar’s hair. [DCF Court Team 13/11/2002]
- Cultural groups
- Sümi Naga
- Person
- Field collector Eric Thomas Drummond Lambert
- PRM source Eric Thomas Drummond Lambert
- PRM source Henry Balfour
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- By 1942
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1942
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Hair, Material Cane Plant, Process Bound
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.8.19
Search terms: Ritual and Ceremonial, Clothing Headgear, Status, Ornament, Ceremonial Object, Headgear, Status Object, Head Ornament
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