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

Lot 77

Six Naga bracelets

Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £353

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Description

Six Naga bracelets
Nagaland
including five Tangkhul, three with waisted tapered ends and incised linear decoration, the other two with dot decoration, 8.5cm, 8.7cm, 9.2cm and10cm (2) long, and the sixth Manipur, with trumpet ends and with incised dot scroll decoration, 9cm wide. (6)

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. pps. 262, 263.