Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19th February 2025
Lot 61
Six Naga armbands
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £756
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Description
Six Naga armbands
Konyak, Nagaland
brass including a pair of and a single flat spiral, all with incised linear and lozenge decoration, 15cm and 15.8cm, 13cm long, two spiral; one fibre strung, 11.5cm and 18cm long, and sixteen linear and lozenge decorated graduated bands on a bamboo frame, 16cm long. (6)
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 261.