Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19th February 2025
Lot 144
A Naga pipe
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £1764
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Description
A Naga pipe
Nagaland
the bowl carved as a head with elliptical eyes, a large pointed nose and bared teeth, the back with a leaping animal and another to the stem, and with a brass plate to the top of the stem, the end with a plaited cane band,
22cm long.
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 335.