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Ethnological Museum of Berlin Süd- und Südostasien Naga-Sammlung [I C 28343 b]
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Men's Headdress

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Description

The men’s headdress is made of curved horn with dyed goat hair.
Naga men wear headdresses and other ornamentation even in everyday life. Borduaria is the name of a place in present-day Arunachal Pradesh. The people who live there use the name Wancho and do not officially belong to the Naga. However, they are closely related to the Konyak Naga.

Material/Technique

Horn; colored goat hair

Measurements

Length x width x depth: 49 x 28 x 2 cm;

Links / Documents

Created Created
1851
Borduaria-Naga
Arunachal Pradesh
Collected Collected
1892
Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers
1850 1896
Ethnological Museum of Berlin

Object from: Ethnological Museum of Berlin

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