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

Lot 14

A Naga bead necklace

Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £227

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Description

A Naga bead necklace
Konyak, Nagaland
coloured glass beads, brass beads, shell beads, horn spacers and fibre, with ribbed brass bell pendants and a ceramic fragment disc clasp,
42cm long.

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 311.