Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19 Feb 2025
A Naga necklace
A Naga necklace
Angami, Nagaland
with three carved chank shells, the largest with a fibre bound carved wood support to the back, and the two smaller with incised rows of dots, and with coloured glass and shell beads, with bone spacers, one with incised linear decoration,
64cm long.
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 332.