Tall bamboo drinking vessel with a carved figure of a man on one side. With a handle made of twisted and plaited cane strips. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 10/12/2004]

Collection type: Object
Description: Tall bamboo drinking vessel with a carved figure of a man on one side. With a handle made of twisted and plaited cane strips. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 10/12/2004]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Nagaland
Cultural groups: Khiamniungan Naga; Chang Naga
Person: Field collector James Philip Mills; PRM source James Philip Mills
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1923
Date collected: February 1923
Acquisition information: Loaned: 10/1923 Donated: 1928
Materials and processes: Material Bamboo Plant, Material Cane Plant, Material Metal, Process Carved, Process Twisted, Process Plaited, Process Incised
Dimensions: Height: max 395 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1928.69.431
Associated publications: Reproduced in colour on page 337 of The Nagas - Hill Peoples of Northeast India: Society, Culture and the Colonial Encounter, by Julian Jacobs with Alan Macfarlane, Sarah Harrison and Anita Herle (London: Thames and Hudson, 1990). [SM 20/10/2011]

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