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  Peter Hoesli February 16, 2015 at 3:12pm

  Gorgeous Bianca. I should definitely schedule once a trip to the Nagaland - I was told that the nature there is magnificent and of course the jewelry... With kind regards. Peter
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  Linda Pastorino February 19, 2015 at 5:47pm

  This one is unusual in that it has it's coin necklace still attached.  I have had several including one i own and sold a really thick one last year but this is the first one i have seen with an attached necklace that is so nice. 
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  Joost Daalder February 19, 2015 at 10:48pm

  While frequently and understandably described as Naga, reliable observers have also seen them worn in Kachin State, Burma. Some people we know describe having seen them worn as a bandolier, diagonally spread across the body. Linda is right: the attachment of the coin necklace is most unusual. A very good piece! They go back a long way ... We illustrate one with the claws browned deeply with age - but without coins (*Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment*, p. 233). We have seen pictures of others than our own - but the coins (etc!) would seem to be most exceptional, making this a remarkable piece. Well done!
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  Joost Daalder February 19, 2015 at 10:54pm

  As a footnote, by the way: it is not infrequent for dealers not to know that these are pangolin claws, and to describe them as teeth. Although over time we have come across several (though I think only our own in real life), it is perfectly common for people not to know they are pangolins' teeth, and we have listened to people claiming fiercely that they "only" occur among the Naga and just as fiercely that they "only" occur in Kachin State. Of course the likely solution is that they appear in both places.
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  Linda Pastorino February 19, 2015 at 11:06pm

    I will send in later a photo of it being worn.  The one i sold recently was fabulously thick and long , the best one i have had. I sold two to the same client over the years.  I wear mine as a ruff , looks very Elizabethan ! 
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  Linda Pastorino February 19, 2015 at 11:08pm

  The one below is thicker than usual and longer , this one i sold last year. My feeling is that they are worn more in Burma than in Naga areas. 
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  Joost Daalder February 19, 2015 at 11:15pm

  Hi Linda, - Yes, we also settled for Burma in our description rather than Nagaland. I have seen one like yours before, with its beautiful beads, but we were not able to buy it: yours is a wonderful piece - as you say, thicker and longer than normal, and the red beads compliment it beautifully. Ours has neither beads nor coins. We described it as early to mid 20th c, but that refers to its being most likely being put together then: the claws used as beads are much older, and their age was a great lure. But it is a simple example compared with yours and Bianca's, both of which are splendid.
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  Joost Daalder February 20, 2015 at 6:49am

  I wrote absolute nonsense in my previous post. We DO have a bandolier very much like yours, Linda, and I had forgotten about it. It is on p. 341 of Truus Daalder's *Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment*. It is an excellent piece and I shall re-post it!
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  Joost Daalder February 20, 2015 at 7:07am

  Please see https://ethnicjewels.ning.com/photo/bandolier-made-of-pangolin-claws...