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Ethnological Museum of Berlin Süd- und Südostasien Naga-Sammlung [I C 28470]
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Panji Basket (Soku/Shuku)

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Description

The name on the card is "soku" or "shuku". The small plant-fibre basket contains 10 human heads carved in wood, which indicate that the basket would be carried only by a successful headhunter. The basket is worn over the shoulder with a raffia strap. The basket usually contains panji, fire-hardened bamboo sticks sharpened at one end that are hidden in the ground. These are inserted in the ground to keep pursuers at bay during battle and headhunting (anyone stepping on the sharp bamboo tip would injure themselves)

Material/Technique

Vegetable fiber; wood, inlay possibly bone, hair

Measurements

Height x width x depth: 55.5 x 13.5 x 23 cm;

Links / Documents

Map
Created Created
1851
Ao Naga
India
Collected Collected
1892
Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers
Nagaland
1850 1902
Ethnological Museum of Berlin

Object from: Ethnological Museum of Berlin

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