Necklace ·  India, Naga · ID: 3033724

Description

27 strings, glass beads of different form and colour thread on plant fibre, the geometry is maintained by bone spacers, good condition;
the uncertain division between ornament and amulet provides the ornaments with the faculty of exercising good or bad influences, and therefore they must be handled with care. For this reason in the past a new bead necklace was first given to a dog to wear, so that the bad spirit possibly living in it would have afflicted the animal and not the person wearing it later.

Comparing literature

Jacobs, Julian, The Nagas, Stuttgart 1990, p. 320