Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas​ | Antiquities Online Only Sale - 20th August 2026

Lot 95

TWO NAGA HEAD-TAKER'S BASKETS

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £826

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Description

TWO NAGA HEAD-TAKER'S BASKETS
KONYAK, NAGALAND
one with a band of fur, three monkey skulls and a horn with mounted dyed hair, the basket 36.2cm high, and the other with three monkey skulls and two horns, one pierced and inset hair, with a woven cotton strap, 26cm high, and a Naga basket, with two carved wood human heads, three monkey skulls and horn pendants, with a woven geometric decorated strap, 19.7cm wide (3)

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. pps. 188-189.