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Chopper

Description

Chopper of iron, with a broad blade with a tang, corroded, part of a Naga grave group: Assam, Cachar, Laback, Naga

Museum reference

A.1956.592 G

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Chopper

Production information

Laback, Cachar, Assam, India, South Asia

Style / Culture

Naga

Associations

Collector: Thoms, Robert Graham, 1862 - 1870 (fl.)

References

ON THE NAGA TRIBES OF THE HIMALAYAS, WITH A NOTICE OF THE OPENING OF A NAGA GRAVE. By R. GRAHAM THOMS, ESQ. in the PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND, 1870, Vol. 8, pp. 342-347.

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