- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bone hair pin with a plume of goat's hair. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 12/10/2005]
- Cultural groups
- Konyak Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1926
- Date collected
- By 1926
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1926
- Materials and processes
- Material Bone, Material Goat Hair Animal, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Dyed
- Dimensions
- Length: max 405 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1926.20.21
- Associated publications
- Reproduced in colour on page 217 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]
Search terms: Ornament, Status, Hair Ornament, Pin
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