A Naga headdress

A Naga headdress

Tangkhul Group, Nagaland

the woven fibre cap with two bands having inserted tubes with large tail feathers of a Great Indian Hornbill and smaller chicken feathers, with a pair of side discs decorated with red kafferboom seeds and white Job's Tears seeds and horse hair, the front with an applied circular brass disc with linear, dot and circle decoration, with a conforming arch shape face ornament,

108cm high (excluding the horse hair.)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

cf. Julian Jacobs. The Nagas, Hill Peoples of Northeast India, 1990, p.229.

Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Allan Stone: African, Oceanic, and Indonesian Art - Volume One, 15 November 2013, lot 35.

CITES A10 certificate no. 621543/01