Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19 Feb 2025
Two Naga head-taker's baskets
Two Naga head-taker's baskets
Konyak, Nagaland
one with a band of fur, three monkey skulls and a horn with mounted dyed hair, the basket 36.2cm high, and the other with three monkey skulls and two horns, one pierced and inset hair, with a woven cotton strap, 26cm high. (2)
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 188.