Naga Four Wife Pounding Table Smokey quartz and Karen hill tribe silver

and Karen hill tribe silver

At the back is a soldered flat loop for attachment to the garment

Luxuriously woven in the dark colours beloved by the nomadic Kutchi Afghanis

and represent the Hindu god Shiva

Naga Four Wife Pounding Table Smokey quartz and Karen hill tribe silverNaga pounding table. Hand carved from a single teak tree trunk. Late 19th or early 20th century. From Nagaland, India. Naga pounding tables were used by the Naga tribes of Northeast India as a grinding and pounding table for grains. The four holes in the centre are where the grains were pounded into flour using long, extremely heavy pestles, accompanied by a trance like song. Traditionally, the number of holes represent the number of wives in the