Outfit
Each tribe organizes its own special multi-day festival over the course of the annual cycle. Only at the annual Hornbill Festival do all the groups come together and present their different traditions.
Nowadays, an Ao-Naga performs at these cultural events in such a setting. In this set, which Mr. Sangyusang Pongener from the village of Ungma gave to the museum, the traditional form has been preserved, only the materials are modern: There is wood instead of ivory and plastic instead of rotang or in place of the boar tusk. While such or similar objects were worn by several Naga tribes in the old days, these similarities are much more pronounced in the course of a cross-tribal search for a uniform Naga identity.
Each tribe organizes its own special multi-day festival over the course of the annual cycle. Only at the annual Hornbill Festival do all the groups come together and present their different traditions.
Nowadays, an Ao-Naga performs at these cultural events in such a setting. In this set, which Mr. Sangyusang Pongener from the village of Ungma gave to the museum, the traditional form has been preserved, only the materials are modern: There is wood instead of ivory and plastic instead of rotang or in place of the boar tusk. While such or similar objects were worn by several Naga tribes in the old days, these similarities are much more pronounced in the course of a cross-tribal search for a uniform Naga identity.
Collector:
Christian Schicklgruber DNB
Entry Date:
2007
Culture
Indien Naga
Material/technology:
wood
Copyright
Weltmuseum Wien
Collection area
South Asia, Southeast Asia, Himalayas
Invs.
186040
