A HAKHA CHIN BURMESE LACQUERED WALKING CANE
North-Western Myanmar (Burma), mid-20th century

The tapering cylindrical wooden stick lacquered and painted with typical motifs of Hakha Chin people's lacquerwork, including green flowers and foliage over a cross-hatched ground in yellow and vertical bands of stylised wavy pattern reminiscent of chain links, the rounded pommel and lower end painted in bright red lacquer.

92.5cm long

Provenance: UK diplomatic family collection since the early 20th century.

For a published comparable of Hakha Chin lacquered wooden hairpins bearing similar decorations and stylised motifs: John Mack, Ethnic Jewellery, 1988, p. 104, fig. 83.