This volume was part of series titled 'Contributions in Critical Museology and Material Culture' published by the Horniman Museum and Gardens and edited by Fiona Kerlogue. This volume was inspired by Andy West's 1992 doctoral thesis titled 'Nagas in the Museum'.
Museums, colonialism, and identity: a history of Naga collections in Britain (by Andy West, 2011)
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These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
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