- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Woman's short skirt in black with thin red stripes and cowries. White band at one side of the cloth. [MJD 02/11/2012]
- Long description
- Woman's short skirt in black with thin red stripes and cowries. White band at one side of the cloth. The cowries are stitched into 14 trefoils, 16 squares and 5 rectangles. Supplementary weft design in red and yellow. One band of bead work; yellow, red, blue and white rows of beads. [MJD 02/11/2012]
- Cultural groups
- Sümi Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1942
- Date collected
- 1937 - 1942
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1946
- Materials and processes
- Material Textile, Material Pigment, Material Cowrie Shell, Material Yarn, Material Bead, Process Spun, Process Dyed, Process Woven, Process Stitched, Process Supplementary Weft Woven
- Dimensions
- Width: max 557 mm, Length: max 1155 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1946.7.36
- 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]
Search terms: Clothing Textile, Status, Headhunting, Bead, Trade, Skirt, Status Object