Sale 155 Lot 1450

COLLECTION OF SIX WEAPONS FROM HEAD HUNTERS IN NORTHERN BORDER OF INDIA, late 19th-early. Including three Assamese hand-wrought spears with hand-carved wooden shafts and hand-tufted hair, used by foot soldiers as charge weapons during battle; two swords, and a wood and metal hatchet with red and black human hair - Largest spear, L: ; hatchet, L: 28 in.
Estimate $15,000-25,000

PROVENANCE: By family descent from Captain John Warnes Hudson who served in the British Army during World War I, and subsequently in the Indian Army in the Scinde Horse Cavalry, 1919-23. The weapons were a gift from the British Governor of India, the Earl of Reading. They had hung in the Government House in Delhi before being given to Captain Hudson