Woman's Belt · India, Nagaland, Mon and Tuensang Districts, Konyak · ID: 3045270
sold
EUR 300
Provenance
Holger Hofmann, Hamburg, GermanySize
L: 71 cm
B: 13,5 cm
L: 28.0 inch
B: 5.3 inch
Description
glass beads, bone, fibre, 32-stranded, breakage (bone spacer)
Beside this women almost never wore any other piece of clothing, because the Konyak thought that too much clothing reduces fertility and is an obstacle in having large families.
Comparing literature
Somaré Grata & Leonard Vigorelli, The Nagas, Bergamo 1992, p. 151