Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19th February 2025
Lot 38
Seven Naga necklaces
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £315
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Description
Seven Naga necklaces
Nagaland
including three Ao, with orange and blue glass beads, one with a shell pendant, 21cm, 41cm and 49.5cm long, another Sangtam with brass bells and a shell pendant, 47cm long, an orange glass bead and brass spiral disc pendant necklace, probably Burmese Naga, 27cm long and two with metal tubes, having either coins or glass beads, 35cm and 38cm long. (7)
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. pps. 258, 323. (bells and glass beads)