Carved wooden seated male figure with ear pendants and button ear ornaments. Hair that has been dyed a pink/red hang from both ear lobes. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/3/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Carved wooden seated male figure with ear pendants and button ear ornaments. Hair that has been dyed a pink/red hang from both ear lobes. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/3/2005]
Long description: Carved wooden seated male figure with ear pendants and button ear ornaments. Hair that has been dyed a pink/red hang from both ear lobes. Punch marks run along the chest and incisions along both wrists - possibly denoting neck and wrist ornaments. Top of head, lower back and facial features have been blackened. The eyes have holes, and the philtrum is picked out by a single black line. [NC 3/6/2016]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Nagaland Longnyu Village
Cultural groups: Konyak Naga
Person: Field collector James Philip Mills; PRM source James Philip Mills
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1930
Date collected: May 1930
Acquisition information: Donated: 1930
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Hair, Material Pigment, Material Plastic Synthetic, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Perforated, Process Incised
Dimensions: Width: max 73 mm, Depth: max 61 mm, Height: max 180 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1928.69.1284
Associated publications: Reproduced in colour on page 201 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).

Search terms: Figure, Toy and Game, Button, Doll Figure

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