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

Lot 156

Three Naga panji baskets

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £945

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Description

Three Naga panji baskets
Nagaland
with cane hoops, one with a yellow orchid stem and dyed hair band and with applied dyed red and black hair, 55cm long, another with a pair of boar's tusks and applied hair, 78cm long, and the third, plain containting numerous panjis, 43cm high, and a bound group of panjis in a basket, 27cm long. (4)

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 238. (two baskets)