Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19th February 2025
Lot 155
A Naga panji container
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £819
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Description
A Naga panji container
Nagaland
of horn shape with applied dyed hair tails, with a bound rattan loop and a cotton sash,
40cm high,
and a Naga panji basket with dyed hair tail, with dyed red cane and yellow orchid stem, 37cm long and a group of panji in a basket, 39cm long. (3)
Panji are sharpened bamboo spikes stuck in the ground to impede the progress of one's enemies.
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 238.