Two Naga ceremonial shields

Two Naga ceremonial shields
Nagaland
woven rattan, one with a hide mounted front and a fibre bound staff with applied tufts of hair, the shield, 167cm high, the other with twelve applied cut hide masks with inset tufts of red dyed hair, with a hair bound finial, 182cm high. (2)

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

cf. Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. pps 250-251.