A Naga hat

A Naga hat
Nagaland
cane with yellow orchid stem, the front and back with a pair of cane bound boar's tusks, the sides with a red dyed hair tuft and the top with a fur band and two fibre spikes, previously with feathers,
31cm high.

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 224.