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

Lot 113

Three Naga hairpins

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £3150

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Description

Three Naga hairpins
Konyak, Nagaland
carved wood, one with two relief carved figures, each holding a head, with a tuft of dyed hair, 22cm long, another with ten relief carved heads and a cut tuft of hair, 34cm long, and the third carved three relief heads to each end and side, 26.6cm long. (3)

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 215.