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

Lot 128

Five Naga cloths

Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £441

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Description

Five Naga cloths
Nagaland
including two Tangkhul body cloths, 82cm x 148cm and 128cm x 185cm, two with a central blue strip, one embroidered and one with a black ground with red and green stripes and a supplementary weft end, and an Indian cloth, embroidered rows of elephants, peacocks and various symbols, 118cm x 193cm. (6)

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 282. (two Tangkhul body cloths)