Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19th February 2025
Lot 137
A Naga man's headdress
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £2268
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Description
A Naga man's headdress
Tangkhul, Nagaland
with a woven fibre cap having two bands with metal spikes for the cotton bound reed tubes with large tail feathers of a Great Indian Hornbill and smaller chicken feathers, above an applied circular metal bossed disc and flanked by two discs with applied red kafferboom seeds and white Job's Tears seeds and horse hair, with a conforming U shape face ornament,
153cm high, 90cm wide,
with a wood feather box and cover, 55cm long.
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 229.