Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19th February 2025
Lot 22
Three Naga men's boar's tusk torques
Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £756
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Description
Three Naga men's boar's tusk torques
Nagaland
bound with natural and dyed leaf fibre and with square cut shells, two with carnelian beads, one inscribed NAGA, ASSAM and another 77138,
18.5cm, 19cm and 19.5cm wide. (3)
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 218.