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

Lot 43

A Naga necklace / waistband

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £441

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Description

A Naga necklace / waistband
Konyak, Nagaland
coloured glass beads and fibre, with four shells, one with an incised dot border, and with six wood ornaments with woven fibre and layers of natural and dyed hair, suspended with glass beads and a group of nine cast brass bells, on glass and brass bead strands, with fibre and a bone support,
80cm long.

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 307.