Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19th February 2025
Lot 170
A Naga sash
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £378
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Description
A Naga sash
Nagaland
embroidered cloth with five cast brass bells and coloured glass beads,
108cm long,
a Naga double carved head chest ornament, hung with a pair of Janus heads, fibre and hair pendants, 21cm long, two Naga brass link chains, 35cm and 80.5cm long, a Naga coiled brass bead necklace, 32.5cm long, three pairs of Naga metal disc bells, another brass with a horn tapper, two Naga woven fibre armbands, another with applied cowrie shells, a Naga brass buffalo head pendant, a Naga brass bell on a red glass bead necklace, three brass disc pendants and a pair of metal rattle anklets. (23)
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 260. (chains)