Description (Physical description)
The atypical basketry straps suggest this hat is Burmese Naga - there are Konyak Nagas in Burma.
Event Date
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Conical woven cane hat with red goat's hair plume. Band composed of strips of red dyed cane around bottom. Over the hat are two long straps of plaited basketry to which are attached boars tusks, feathers and sections of boar's, tiger's, and leopard's jaws. Konyak Naga.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Donated by F. Tonge.
Event Date 1956
Author: rachel hand

Context (References)
Published in Jacobs, J. (1990). 'The Nagas: Hill Peoples of Northeast India'. Thames & Hudson. p. 218.
Event Date 1990
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Jacobs, J. (1990): 'Chief's helmet with a plume of red dyed goat's hair and sections of bone, tiger and leopard jaws. The atypical basketry straps suggest that it may be Burmese Naga.'
Event Date 1990
Author: Sophie Wardle

Context (Display)
Exhibited: 'The Nagas', CUMAA July 1990 - April 1992.
Event Date 07/1990
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Domed helmet of woven brown cane fibre, with horizontal bands of dyed red cane fibre around base and a large plume of dyed red goat's hair at top. Two long strips of ornately plaited cane fibre crisscross over the top of the helmet (beneath the plume) forming extensions at the back of the hat and at each side of the face. Loops are formed at the bottom of each strip. To these straps are attached (with cane fibre) mottled brown and white feathers, boar's tusks, and sections of the jaws and teeth of leopards, tigers, and boars.
Event Date 12/2/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle