A Naga pipe

A Naga pipe
Nagaland
the bowl carved as a head with elliptical eyes, a large pointed nose and bared teeth, the back with a leaping animal and another to the stem, and with a brass plate to the top of the stem, the end with a plaited cane band,
22cm long.

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 335.