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Warrior basket

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Baskets for men Inscription on the slide: "Toka" basket of the Nangta men (detail of the basket drawings, detail of the monkey skull and the canework) Entry in the main historical catalogue: Baskets for Nangta men Entry historical file card: 'Toka' Three baskets for Nangta men a) with fur,a monkey skull and bast tufts. b) with fur, wooden human face and bast tufts. c) with fur, 6 monkey skulls above the tusks, bast tufts underneath.

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Nangta-Naga
Object type
Warrior basket
Dimensions
Height: 31 cm
Width: 32 cm
Depth: 15 cm
Weight: 2 kg
Material/Technique
Plant fibre, Skin , Tooth/tusk (boar tusk, wild boar), Skull bone (monkey)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
I C 28212 c

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    2nd half of the 19th century
    where
    India
    who
    Nangta-Naga
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    South and Southeast Asia

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