INDIAN NAGALAND POLYCHROME NECKLACE

拍品描述

Ca. 19th - 20th century AD. >A necklace composed of multiple strands of cylindrical glass beads in alternating colours of deep blue and orange, separated by small yellow spacer beads. At the centre is a horizontal arrangement of four elongated white shell elements held between two carved spacer panels. The strands are secured at the top with fibre cord and small circular spacer pieces. > >Size: 430mm x 30mm; Weight: 70g >Provenance: Private UK Collection; ex. Hansjorg Mayer Collection. Published: Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. pps. 331. > >

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