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Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ace forunmarried men. the other for unmarried women ; there is alsoa village hall where the elders meet. The various triljes aredivided into clans, several of which may inhabit one village.There are chiefs, but the real authority lies with the council ofelders and warriors. Men and women generally wear a broadloin-cloth, the women adding to this a separate cloth fastened overthe breast ; both sexes throw another cloth over the shoulders onoccasion. Some of the Naga tribes wear a kind of kilt, theaddition of rows of cowrie-shells signifying that the wearer hastaken the heads of enemies. It is said that different Naga clanscan be distinguished by the difterent patterns of their kilts. The ornaments worn by the Naga are conspicuous, like thoseof Borneo, through the employment of tufts of human hair andof goafs hair dyed red ; the addition of cowrie-shells is alsocharacteristic. Breast-ornaments, coronals and armlets decoratedin this style, are worn. Warriors wear conical caps of coloured
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Fig. G7.—Objects from tlio Niiga of Assam. 1. A duo (see p. 84). 2 Neck-lace of carnehan shell and j^lass beads. 3. Necklace of shell and glass be-idsworn with pendant at back of neck. 4. Necklace of shell and -hiss beads5. Ainilet of rattan with fringe of hair. 0. Brass head-band with shellpendant. 84 ASIA cane, chiefs hats being distinguished by feathers. Girdles of splitcane or stomachers faced with brass j^lates are worn round thebody, and in thfse the dao or knife (fig. 67. 1) is often carried.Warriors also wear a kind of legging of coloured cane.

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