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Prints & Engravings
VBI-0285
NAGA CHIEFTAIN
₹11,000
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Details
- Artist / Engraver
- Manhart (lithographer)
- Year
- 1872
- Publisher / Printer
- Not specified
- Location
- North-East
- Subjects
- Naga chieftain · Ethnographic portraiture · Dress and ornaments
- Size
- 13.5 x 9.8
Description
A superb 19th-century ethnographic portrait titled Naga Chieftain, showing a richly adorned figure with ceremonial ornaments and spear. A highly decorative original plate from Dalton’s Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, documenting communities of eastern and northeastern India.
Condition
Very Good