Black short skirt with three horizontal lines of cowries and one vertical line of cowries at the edge. [MJD 02/11/2012]

Collection type: Object
Description: Black short skirt with three horizontal lines of cowries and one vertical line of cowries at the edge. [MJD 02/11/2012]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Nagaland
Cultural groups: Sümi Naga
Person: Field collector Robert Niel Reid; PRM source Robert Niel Reid
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1942
Date collected: 1937 - 1942
Acquisition information: Donated: 1946
Materials and processes: Material Textile, Material Pigment, Material Cowrie Shell, Process Spun, Process Dyed, Process Woven
Dimensions: Length 1255 mm approx, Width 470 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1946.7.34
Research and responses: Objects in the original Reid collection have gone to various places. 1946.7.96 - 1946.7.124 were sent to the Musee de l'Homme in 1946. 1946.7.85 - 1946.7.95 seem to have been intended to be sent to Paris, but did not go. 1946.7.5 - 1946.7.84, the remainder of the accessioned collection, were kept at the PRM from the beginning. A further group of items never accessioned were sent to the National Museet in Copenhagen in 1947 (the latter group are listed in a single record with REID in accession number field). [SD 27/6/2000]
This textile was seen on a research visit by Vibha Joshi on the 6 November 2012. Vibha commented that this is an Angami man's cloth, not Sema . [FB 09/11/2012]