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This is an ivory armlet from Nagaland, collected amongst the Konyak
Naga in 1923. In Nagaland, body adornments and jewellery were important
markers of social identity. Most ornaments were not freely available
for everyone to wear, but were restricted to particular groups.
Amongst the Ao Naga, men had different rights, some inherited and
some earned, to wear various numbers of ivory armlets.
View database record 1928.69.597
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