- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Woman's black skirt with blue sewn in panel decorated with red woollen supplementary weft. [MJD 11/2/2010]
- Long description
- Woman's black skirt with blue sewn in panel decorated with red woollen supplementary weft. The cloth has narrow yellow, orange and blue warp threads and sets of three orange weft threads. The blue panel is stitched to the two outer panels with blue yarn. It has yellow and orange warp threads and red woollen supplementary weft designs in lines and zigzags. The warp ends have been loosely twisted into a fringe at each end.
- Cultural groups
- Lotha Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- By 1936
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1936
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Wool Yarn Animal, Process Woven, Process Stitched, Process Supplementary Weft Woven, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Dyed
- Dimensions
- Length: max 465 mm, Width: max 955 mm inc fringe
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1936.36.76
- Research and responses
E. T. D. Lambert could Eric Thomas Drummond Lambert (1909-1996), who was an officer in the Indian (Imperial) Police from 1929-47, the Political Officer for the Brahmaputra-Chindwin Survey from 193506, and the District Commissioner of the Naga Hills in 1938 (see Who Was Who entry for further details). [CW 18/5/2000]
Examined in September 2006 by Dr Vibha Joshi who noted down that the this style of skirt is known as surham, the x-design stitching as eiyie and the motifs are lumthe. [for notes see related documents file] [ZM 08/09/2006]
- Associated publications
- Lotha Naga Textiles & Patterns (1914 - 1947), Collective: Renchen Women Welfare Society; Wokha, Nagaland, 2010, Notes: Photographs and PRM catalogue information
1936.36.76
Woman's black skirt with blue sewn in panel decorated with red woollen supplementary weft. [MJD 11/2/2010]
1936.36.76
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