Effigie d´un guerrier debout · Inde, Naga · ID: 3036772
Description
wood, matt brown patina, armed with a short knife and a gun (?), beard and coiffure of animal hair, neck lobe of human hair bound by a traditional hair board and a band of fabric, ear ornament of small animal horn (of a special short statured kind of Carpicornus species), incised scarification marks on the cheeks, slightly dam., missing parts (gun), traces of insect caused damage (back), cracks (upper part of the body, right leg);
statues as the present one were made to recall eminent men or make their owners prestige and authority visible. They were kept inside a dwelling or, more often, inside the “morung”, the house of the clans men, for decorative purposes.
L’objet Effigie d´un guerrier debout avec l’ID d’objet 3036772 a fait partie de la vente aux enchères 77th tribal art auction le 28 juin 2014, numéro de lot 29 et est actuellement disponible pour 1 200 € en Vente libre.
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Littérature comparée
Somaré Grata & Leonard Vigorelli, The Nagas, Bergamo 1992, p. 78