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A BRONZE NAGA HEADHUNTER’S TROPHY HEAD NECKLACE
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2023年12月13日 开拍
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A BRONZE NAGA HEADHUNTER’S TROPHY HEAD NECKLACE

Nagaland, Konyak, 19th century. The necklace strung in jute with beads of varying shapes in green, yellow, red, beige, orange, and black, around a trophy head pendant cast as a face with hollowed eyes and punctured holes for the brows, nose, and mouth, all flanked by pierced ears issuing dangling triangle earrings.

Provenance: Romy Rey Collection, London. Romy Rey (1938-2020) was born in Zurich, Switzerland, studied in Paris and Geneva, and settled in London in the 1960s. She shared her life with the artist Brian Davies (1942-2014), in London and in Southern France. Romy was an avid traveler and dedicated collector of tribal art. Her paintings often portrayed images of ancient or tribal objects in imaginary settings.
Condition: Good condition with wear and some chips to the beads. The bronze with a fine, naturally grown patina.

Weight: 219.6 g
Dimensions: Length 45 cm

The Konyak tribe from Nagaland is known to represent the headhunting era; the practice of headhunting in the olden days was a strong part of their warrior tradition. The ‘Trophy Head’ necklace as it is popularly known as is worn by Konyak Warriors as a sign to show how many ‘heads’ a warrior has taken during the raid of villages. It is called ‘Yanshang’ in Hongphoi area. In Konyak dialect ‘Yanshang’ means ‘enemies head’. It is represented as a symbol of bravery for the warriors. They also represented manhood and were believed to pass down the warrior with wealth and fortune of the vanquished soul.

The Naga comprise a series of related tribal groups concentrated in the border areas of north-eastern India and eastern Burma. They were attracted to rare goods that could be bartered from outside their region. Beaded necklaces were very popular as a show of finery but also as a portable means of displaying and carrying wealth. The components that went into making necklaces were regarded as currency items themselves. Beads and necklaces were accumulated as heirlooms and were passed as dowries and down through generations.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related Naga necklace, dated to the late 19th-early 20th century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1988.143.173.

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