Petite tête sculptée ·  Inde, Naga · ID: 3049510

Description

wood,

This small wooden heads were used as chest ornaments by head-takers or attached to head-takers baskets. Along with monkey skulls and boar’s tusks they were often used as a tally of the number of heads taken.

Littérature comparée

Jacobs, Julian, The Nagas, London 1990, p. 186 ff.