Description (Labels & Markings)
Historic label: 'Ear Ornament for dancing, Angami Naga'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for E 1895.100[.1-2]: 'Pair of ear ornaments. Rosette with emerald beetle wings, elytra of buprestis, at centre surrounded encircled by white coix seeds or "Job's tears" with long red goat's hair fringe. Reverse has concave fibrous disc attached to a boar's tusk decorated with red cane and yellow orchid stem.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for E 1895.100[.1-2]: 'A pair of ear ornaments made of boar's tusks and discs of red hair; the centre two eleytra of brepestris and a ring of coix lacryma [sic] seeds; with long tassels'
Event Date 1895
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'The Proper Study of Mankind: Great Anthropological Collections in Cambridge' (known at MAA as the 'Centenary Exhibition') at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 12 March - 06 May 1984.
Event Date 12/3/1984
Author: maa

Context (Display)
"The Nagas" CUMAA July 1990 - April 1992.
Event Date 7/1990
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
The Annual Report (1896) describes the collection (which this object is a part of) as, 'A set of weapons, articles of dress, ornaments, &c., from the Nagas, of Assam, presented by Mrs. Howell, contains a number of beautiful objects, which are quite new to the Museum. The collection was made by her son, A. A. Howell, Esq., Deputy Commissioner, I. C. S.' (Annual Report 1896, pp. 4).
Event Date 21/9/2015
Author: Olivia Maguire