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

Lot 134

Two Naga belts with dao holders

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £1071

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Description

Two Naga belts with dao holders
Nagaland
cloth and resin with fibre and hair, one with applied cut cowrie shells and carved linear decoration to the holder, 27cm high, and the other with Job's Tear seeds and a plain holder, 29.5cm high. (2)

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 245.