Context (CMS Context)
Found: North-eastern India; India; South Asia; Collected by: ?Anderson.F.D
Event Date 22/3/1995
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Two boar tusks off the front of a Naga's helmet of wooden cane. They hung as ornaments
Event Date 22/3/1995
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Bone tusk, accession marked on the object with no suffix
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Both heavily patinated (?smoked) and both pierced for attaching to the cane hat.
Event Date 17/2/2016
Author: maa

Description (Display)
'Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia' 07/03/2017 - 22/04/2018 MAA exhibition label text reads:

Fragments: tusks and crescents

The pieces of India gathered in the studies of British scholars were used to develop a range of theories. These boar’s tusks and teeth were collected by Sir William Ridgeway, Professor of Archaeology in Cambridge. They illustrate his research on the origins of Islamic crescents, although none come from that tradition.

4. Tusks from a Naga helmet

A gift from the University Lecturer in Bengali in 1909, a label tells us these are “tusks off the front of a Naga’s helmet”.

19th C. Nagaland
Collected by James D. Anderson Sir William Ridgeway bequest 1927.978 A-B

Event Date 22/3/2017
Author: Remke Velden

Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2017.2 | Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia
Event Date 8/3/2017
Author: Remke Velden