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View full screenWarrior's carrying basket, intended to hold trophy heads taken in raids, woven of strips of cane with a wide mesh, elliptical and narrowing towards the base, with the front covered with painted cloth and ornamented with two carved wooden figures: India, Assam, Konyak Naga
A.1921.1440
Assam, India, South Asia
Konyak Naga
Cane, Plant fibre, Cloth, Wood
Jacobs, 1990, for general information: pp135-150, illustr. of similar: pp186-190
Kunz, Joshi (eds.), 2008, illustr. pp65-66
von Führer-Haimendorf, Holt, Rheinhart and Winston 1969
Tattooing information and photographs: Stirn & van Ham, 2003, pp160-165