Naga Four Wife Pounding Table Smokey quartz As per a standard Buddhist

As per a standard Buddhist mala it contains 108 beads and several tasseled spacers

Made of sterling silver quality or higher

fruit and flowers

usually in large numbers to show wealth and status

and represent the Hindu god Shiva

Naga Four Wife Pounding Table Smokey quartz As per a standard BuddhistNaga 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