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.
The object Woman’s Belt with the object ID 3045270 was last part of the auction 91 Tribal Art Auction at March 9, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 20 achieved a sales price of EUR 300.
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Comparing literature
Somaré Grata & Leonard Vigorelli, The Nagas, Bergamo 1992, p. 151