Carved wooden human figure with pierced ears. The top of the head is pigmented in black. There are punch-marks across the figures chest. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/3/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Carved wooden human figure with pierced ears. The top of the head is pigmented in black. There are punch-marks across the figures chest. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/3/2005]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Nagaland
Cultural groups: Konyak Naga
Person: Field collector James Philip Mills; PRM source James Philip Mills
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1926
Date collected: September 1926
Acquisition information: Loaned: 09/1927 Donated: 1928
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Painted, Process Punched, Process Pyroengraved Pokerwork
Dimensions: Depth: max 34 mm, Width: max 58 mm, Height: max 278 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1928.69.1032
Associated publications: Probably reproduced in colour on page 200 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 19/10/2011]

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