INDIAN NAGALAND POLYCHROME NECKLACE

拍品描述

Ca. 19th - 20th century AD. >A necklace composed of multiple strands of elongated shell beads interspersed with cylindrical glass beads in green, orange and white. The strands are arranged in a layered configuration and joined by bone spacer bars and small yellow bead accents near the fastening sections. The structured arrangement of the beads creates a broad collar-like form that sits across the chest. > >Size: 800mm x 75mm; Weight: 375g >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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