Warrior's sash with "panji" basket · India, Naga · ID: 3037599
Description
wood, reddish brown patina, in five rows set with light grey coix seeds, the horn-like projecting tip adorned with long tufts of wild goat’s hair, rattan loop for support, slightly dam., some seeds missing;
“panji” are fire-hardened bamboo spikes, about ten to twenty centimetres in length. In earlier days these were stuck in the ground to impede the progress of enemies or to gore animals caught in traps.
The object Warrior’s sash with “panji” basket with the object ID 3037599 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 13.
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Comparing literature
Kunz, Richard, Naga, Basel 2008, p. 68, ill. 044