Warriors waist cloth "nei shou" - India, Naga

Rare Chang Tribe Naga Warrior's Cloth Textile. Authentic, heavy cotton hand loomed, with cowrie shell circles and worn red dyed dog hair patches and small border weaving in front, and less usual blue

conical wickerwork bonnet, coated with a fine netting of orchid bast, dyed in red and yellow, adorned with a collar of bushy black animal hair and boar tusks on either side, slight traces of usage H:

Chang Naga Warrior Cloth - original indigo dyed cotton, hand loomed, with full complement of four rows of five cowry shell single circles and red dyed dog's hair patches - well-worn cloth, with small

Chang Naga Warrior Cloth. Indigo dyed cloth, with two cowrie shell figures amid 23 cowry shell circles. Size: 3'3'' x 4'11'' (99 x 150 cm).

2 Antique Konyak Tribe Naga Warrior Armband Bracelets, India. Size: 1) 2.5'' x 4'' x 4'' (6 x 10 x 10 cm); 2) 2'' x 4'' x 5'' (5 x 10 x 13 cm).

This is an early 20th century fine dyed red woven cane conical shape warrior's hat interspersed with yellow orchid straw. and black accents. A Traditional form of the Naga Warriors. The Hat measures 8

Warrior dao (knife) belt with cowry shells, Konyak Naga, India. Belt is late 19th/early 20th c., but dao may be newer. Size: 23.5'' x 10'' x 8'' (60 x 25 x 20 cm). Provenance: David and Barbara Fraser

A Naga NE India crown of brass with spiral headhunting symbols, and trade beads. This would have been worn by a chief or warrior who had taken heads. 6 in. x 6.5 in. x 3 in. / 15.24 cm. x 16.51 cm. x

Fine Naga Warrior Spear, traditionally used by warriors from assorted Naga tribes of northeastern India, wound with mostly short dyed goat's hair adornment, with a longer tassel encircling the middle,

Two fine old Naga brass neck chokers, India, and Myannmar, probably 19th century, with two and three small heads representing or even honoring deceased opposing warriors whose heads were taken in batt

A carved wood and rattan gathering basket with the image of a Naga warrior or Head hunter on the front of the basket. Field collected in India in the early 1970s as part of the Museum of Oddities disp

Floral Vintage 60s Shift Silk Dress. Label reads Delhiwala, Made in India, 100% silk, sports & country clothes Lord & Taylor 5th Avenue. Vintage size 8. Waist measures approx 18 inches. Pockets to dre

India, circa late 19th - early 20th century. A fine Chang woven helmet of red and yellow cane and fiber, topped with a band of goat hair. Two large boar tusks are attached with rattan binding. A long

India, circa late 19th - early 20th century. A fine Chang woven helmet of red and yellow cane and fiber, topped with a band of goat hair. Four large boar tusks are attached with rattan binding. Dimens

Chang Naga Warrior's Cowry Shell Apron and Brass Disc. Old, indigo dyed cotton cloth with bamboo supports sewn into the well-worn back at the bottom, completely stitched with filed halves of cowry she

Kanduri cloth, offering made to the shrine of Salar Masud with "daragh" shrine and warriors, cotton applique, Uttar Pradesh, India. Early 20th c. Size: 44'' x 46'' (112 x 117 cm).

Phulkari Head Cloth, India, Early/Mid 20th C. Head cover made of three sections of dark brown tabby woven cotton with dark orange, yellow and white silk embroidery with floss silk in phulkari techniqu

Phulkari Head Cloth, India, Late 19th C. Head cover or shawl composed of four sections of cotton tabby cloth sewn together. Almost the entire surface is covered with counted thread embroidery, worked

Head Cloth, India, Early 20th C. Small hanging or cover with a mandala-like arrangement of images of the gods arranged in a circle around a seated Brahma. Worked in silk satin stitch embroidery on cot

Phulkari Head Cloth, India, Late 19th C. Head cover or wrap composed of four sections of cotton tabby cloth sewn together. Almost the entire surface is covered with counted thread embroidery, worked i

wood (sago palm), metal blade and end piece, fine plant fibre cord, shaft elaborately coated with bunches of goats hair dyed in red and black, small traces of corrosion; such spears belong to the grou

Phulkari Head Cloth, India, Early 20th C. Woman's head-cover of two joined sections of cotton tabby cloth known as a darshan dawar. Embroidered in floss silk in large scale geometric patterns that res

Northern India, Naga, mid to late 19th CE. An early leather headhunter's bag dramatically decorated with four monkey skulls, the two at each end framed by pairs of animal (perhaps boar) tusks, with a

Back at auction due to non-paying bidder... Northern India, Naga, mid to late 19th CE. An early leather headhunter's bag dramatically decorated with four monkey skulls, the two at each end framed by p