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

Lot 153

Three Naga baskets

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £2394

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Description

Three Naga baskets
Nagaland
cane, including one with a single monkey head skull, fibre tassels and a woven and patterned strap, the basket 23cm wide, another with two carved wood human heads, three monkey skulls and horn pendants, with a woven and geometric decorated strap, 19.7cm wide, and the third with the remains of a fur panel, a pair of woven cane mounted boar's tusks, glass beads and fibre tassels, with a woven and geometric decorated strap, 20cm wide. (3)

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 189.