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Ethnologisches Museum Süd- und Südostasien Naga-Sammlung [I C 28282 b,c]
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Armbands (Roktang) for Men

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Description

Armbands (roktang)

The armbands, worn by men, are made of twisted plant fibres with Job's tears (a form of grain) worked into them. Namsangia, the name given to the village at the time, is the name of the region inhabited today by Nocte, Wancho and KonyakNaga.
Index card: “Roktang”, armbands of Namsangia men
Collector: Ehlers, Otto Ehrenfried

Material/Technique

Plant fiber, wound, job's tears

Measurements

Diameter: b: 11.3 cm; Diameter: c: 11 cm

Links / Documents

Map
Created Created
1851
Namsangia-Naga
India
Collected Collected
1892
Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers
Arunachal Pradesh
1850 1902
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