Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

Asia

 

Necklace

India

 

Collected by John Henry Hutton

Given to the Museum in 1931

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Amongst many Naga groups in India, tigers’ teeth are worn to indicate hunting skill. This ornate necklace with its pendant of three tigers’ teeth was collected amongst the Naga some time before 1931.

View database record 1923.85.699