Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19 Feb 2025
A Naga body cloth
A Naga body cloth
Ao, Nagaland
wool with a central cotton band, painted cockerels, tigers, lions, bison, elephants, long tail birds, stars and heads,
112cm x 193cm,
and an Ao body cloth, with a central band with remains of painted geometric decoration, 129cm x 169cm. (2)
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 274, 279.