INDIAN NAGALAND POLYCHROME NECKLACE

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Ca. 19th - 20th century AD. >A necklace composed of two curved bone spacer panels from which multiple elongated shell pendants are suspended. Below these elements are several strands of glass beads arranged in alternating colours of green, red, and white, creating a layered, polychrome effect. The bone elements are pierced and carefully arranged in fan-like formations, while the lower strands form graduated loops across the front of the necklace. > >Size: 700mm x 95mm; Weight: 440g >Provenance: Private UK Collection; ex Hansjorg Mayer Collection. Published: Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 329. >

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