Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19th February 2025
Lot 28
Two Naga child's bead necklaces
Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £252
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Description
Two Naga child's bead necklaces
Konyak, Nagaland
coloured glass beads and fibre, with brass bell pendants, one with brass spacers and a shell clasp, 30cm wide, and the other with bone spacers, 34.5cm wide,
and two Naga bead head ornaments, 28cm and 33cm wide. (4)
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 309. (necklaces and fawn head ornament)