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

Lot 115

Three Naga hairpins

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £1638

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Description

Three Naga hairpins
Konyak, Nagaland
carved wood, one modelled as a right hand, 29.5cm long, another with twelve relief carved heads and a tuft of dyed hair, 22.7cm, and the third, carved fourteen relief heads and with a tuft of hair, 23.8cm long. (3)

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

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