Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19th February 2025
Lot 147
A Naga hat
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £605
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Description
A Naga hat
Nagaland
cane, with finely woven red dyed cane and yellow orchid stem, with a crest of red dyed hair, a pair of woven cane mounted boar's tusks and a pair of mounted horn slithers with applied hair,
28cm high.
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 225.