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Ethnologisches Museum Süd- und Südostasien Naga-Sammlung [I C 28237]
https://id.smb.museum/digital-asset/1698147 (Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin CC BY-NC-SA)
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Pendant made from tiger claws

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Description

Only exceptional warriors were permitted to wear this jewellery as a mark of distinction. Unauthorized wearers would be no match for the unique power of tiger claws. The Naga have a special relationship to tigers. Some Naga, so-called tiger people, can be possessed by a tiger spirit. The Namzik Naga today refer to themselves as Wancho, Nocte or Konyak Naga.
Collector: Ehlers, Otto Ehrenfried

Material/Technique

Tiger claws, putty, seed capsule Elaeocarpus ganitrus; plant fiber

Measurements

Length x width x height: 9.5 x 11.6 x 1.7 cm;

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