Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19 Feb 2025
A Naga man's apron
A Naga man's apron
Nagaland
cloth and fibre with rows of stitched cut edge cowrie shells, with a metal disc having a central boss with a red cotton tuft,
the apron 47cm long, 21cm wide. (2)
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
cf. Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 273