Cowrie Decorated Tribal Basket From Nagaland - Ca 1930 Origin - Turkmenistan Reverse Glass Paintings are painted

Reverse Glass Paintings are painted on the back of the glass which requires the artist to paint the detail first-  There is some splitting on the frame - the price reflects this)

Parvati was scorned by her husband Shiva for the colour of her skin and so changed her skin colour to gold becoming Gauri

The straightforward design is representative of the Ming era

It is constructed from cedar wood with some minor repairs

Cowrie Decorated Tribal Basket From Nagaland - Ca 1930 Origin - Turkmenistan Reverse Glass Paintings are paintedAn old woven basket from the tribal area of Nagaland in North East India. Decorated in cowrie shells, these baskets were hand made to withstand brutal everyday use. Nagaland is a relatively inaccessible and unexplored area of India which borders with Myanmar. The people live in villages set throughout the jungle and until the introduction of Christianity in the 1960's, the people of Nagaland were headhunters, regularly going to war with other nearby