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Carved Figure of Guardian Spirit
Ref: 4200
A large and atmospheric primitive carved wooden figure from the remote and mysterious forested state of Nagaland inNorth Eastern India near to the border with Burma.
These figures were guardian spirits and were sited in niches carved into trees and in the fields on the outskirts of the village. The Naga tribes were remote and independent and only in the 1970s was "head-hunting" officially outlawed. The pinched smile of this Naga spirit figure is typical of other carvings we have had and is suggestively neither sinister nor entirely welcoming.
Nagaland early 20th cent.
H: 94cm (37.0in)
W: 17cm (6.7in)
D: 16cm (6.3in)
£450
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