A fascinating place filled with dioramas showing the lifestyles of the many individual tribes of Nagas, carved gateposts, status pillars to record feasts of honour, and traditional jewellery. An essential item used in Naga jewellery is the seashell. Visitors should also examine the ceremonial drum housed in a shed of its own in the grounds of the museum. The drum not only looks like a huge, dugout war canoe, but it also has a figurehead on its stem, stylised waves painted on its prow and paddle-like drum-strikers. These cultural pointer lend support to a Naga belief that their ancestors came from the sea. Scholars speculate that the ancestors of the Nagas were venturesome seafarers from Sumatra who settled in the mountains of North-East India after a long migration but still retained memories of their Island‘s past in their legends, ceremonial jewellery and their great village drums.