Naga Four Wife Pounding Table Smokey quartz At the back is a

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

Wood carved and decorated with lime

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Naga Four Wife Pounding Table Smokey quartz At the back is aNaga 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