Wooden board carved with four heads, one above the other. Used as a house ornament to indicate that the owner has taken four heads.

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden board carved with four heads, one above the other. Used as a house ornament to indicate that the owner has taken four heads.
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India
Cultural groups: Angami Naga
Person: Field collector John Henry Hutton; PRM source John Henry Hutton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1914
Date collected: By 1914
Acquisition information: Donated: 1914
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Object numbers: Accession number: 1923.84.68
Associated publications: Reproduced in colour on page 242 (top left) 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).