A Naga necklace

A Naga necklace
Angami, Nagaland
with three chank shells, the larger with a fibre bound carved wood support and with a band of white glass beads, the two other shells with rows of incised dots, with coloured glass and shell beads having bone spacers, the two larger ones with incised dot and linear decoration,
58cm long.

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 332.