Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19 Feb 2025

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Three Naga hip ornaments

£600 - £800 £2,772

Three Naga hip ornaments
Konyak
including one with a wood body, bound with natural and dyed hair with fibre, mounted with four horns and with a hair tail, with a pair of fibre belt panels with rows of applied cut edge cowrie shells, with a bone bar, 71cm wide, 79cm long, another with a pair of carved human head finials, each with a single horn ear ornament, the body with rattan, woven cloth and glass beads and a hair tail, 80cm long and the third with a pair of horns above two small relief heads and inset dyed hair tufts and a hair tail, 66cm long. (3)

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 241.

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