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

Lot 127

Seven Naga textiles

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £353

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Description

Seven Naga textiles
Nagaland
including a Lhota warrior's ceremonial body cloth, 136cm x 172cm, an Ao woman's skirt, 70cm x 133cm, a Lhota man's body cloth, 94cm x 182cm, a Lhota woman's skirt, 57cm x 125cm, an Angami woman's skirt, 90cm x 139cm, a Sema woman's skirt, 48.5cm x 105cm, a Sema man's body cloth, 93cm x 146cm, and a Garo Trade strip woven strip, Assam, 11.5cm x 239.5cm long. (8)

Provenance
C. R. Stonor, UK. (each piece with a hand written identification label)
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. pps. 277, 279, 291, 303, 305.