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Curating Naga collections

I undertook internship placements at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, and the British Museum, London.

Tribal Kotpad textiles and the methods of natural dyeing in the border zone of Orissa and Bastar

My first visit to this region was in the year 2000 to record the handcrafted tradition of Bastar when the agitation for Chattisgarh State was echoing across the entire region.

Understanding the antiquity of mankind: Interpretation of past human behaviour from archaeological artefacts with special reference to stone tools

The Nehru Trust award allowed me to visit the archives and manuscript collections of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, and Indian Collections housed in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. The ambition of my project was to better consider the beginnings of prehistoric archaeology in the Indian sub-continent with special reference to eastern India.

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