Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19th February 2025
Lot 125
Seven Naga body cloths
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £945
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Description
Seven Naga body cloths
Nagaland
including Kabui, with supplementary-weft to the end and side borders, 81cm x 51cm, Zemi, with woven chevrons and tassles to the inner borders, 102cm x 141cm, Tangkhul, with chequer stripes, 82cm, x 213cm, Ao, indigo with thin stripes, 57cm x 176cm, two white with four black stripes and a central red stripe with red cotton to the ends, 96cm x 153cm and 70cm x 138cm, one natural with thin black stripes and remains of nine rows of seeds?, 135cm x 176cm, and a Tangkhul women's skirt, with chevrons on white bands, 58cm x 136cm, and a Kabui embroidered sash, 38cm x 198cm. (9)
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 282, 284, 299, 304.