- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Hair ornament.
- Cultural groups
- Konyak Naga
- Person
- Field collector John Henry Hutton
- Field collector James Philip Mills
- PRM source John Henry Hutton
- PRM source James Philip Mills
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1923
- Date collected
- October 1923
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1924
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length x Width 300 x 91 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1923.85.289
- Associated publications
- Possibly reproduced in colour on page 216 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]
Search terms: Ornament, Hair Ornament
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