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Assembled over the past 25 years, during numerous discovery journeys in the remote mountain ranges of Northeast India, where the Naga tribal groups settled several hundred years ago. This collection illustrates the Naga peoples heritage and culture. It offers the reader an inside view into their jewellery and ornamental traditions. The more than 400 pieces featured in this book confirm the skills of the men and women who have harmoniously combined a large variety of materials, locally available or imported from afar, to create astonishing ornaments. This book has been written as a testimonial to their talents at a time when tribal traditions are fast disappearing around the world. An authoritative foreword by the French scholar Dr Antonio J. Guerreiro, gives the reader a glance into the lifestyle, social system and material culture of one of the most remote and mysterious indigenous groups in Asia.

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Dr. Guerreiro is a leading scholar in the comparative approach of Austronesian cultures and arts. He has published extensively on Malay/ Indonesian ethnic cultures since the 1980s. Dr. Guerreiro has worked as a consultant for various museographical projects and has done research on ikat textiles and personal adornment of the tribal peoples of the Indonesian Archipelago, the Golden Triangle and the tribal minorities of Northeast India. Mr. Creutz Christian is a French freelance photographer, a graduate from the Louise Lumiére School in Paris, who has been working in many fields of photography for the past 30 years. His work has covered the areas of corporate, institutional, architectural, and portrait photography around Eastern France. In addition, he has travelled around the world to pursue his personal interest in cultural diversity. Among other assignments, he has photographed legendary diamonds and rate natural pearls from private and public collections as well as the jewellery and adornments of the Himalayan region.

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