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| Konyak, Nagaland, Northeast India Early 20th Century Wood & pigment Height: 5 cm. Provenance: John Lundsford Collection, Dallas, TX. (Former curator of the Dallas Museum of Art). These small heads were usually worn around the neck or attached to baskets. They were used as headhunting trophies, representing a slain enemy. This example is unusually naturalistic and dates to the early 20th Century. | |||||||||||
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