Belt of white cotton cloth with designs in blue, tassels at each end. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/4/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Belt of white cotton cloth with designs in blue, tassels at each end. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/4/2005]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Nagaland
Cultural groups: Karbi
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 Cotton Yarn Plant, Material Pigment, Material Wool Yarn Animal, Process Spun, Process Dyed, Process Woven
Dimensions: Length: max 1500 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1946.7.38.2 Other PRM accession number: 1946.7.38b
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Correspondence from Robert N. Reid concerning his collection of 'pieces of typical home-woven cloth from the Assam Hill tribes . . . Naga, Lushai, Kuki, Grio, Khasi & so on, and a few articles worn by those tribesmen' which he wishes to donate to the Museum. Letter dated 6 May, 1946 includes list of objects sent to the Museum. Letter dated June 17, 1946 discusses the 'Cochari' work: 'I have a very hazy recollection as to when they were presented to me, but I know I was given some cloth of the kind you mention at a village (of Cocharis . . .) was DIMAPUR when I was starting on a tour in the MIKIR HILLS . . . they may, on the other hand, be Assamese, although that is a very vague term'. Letter from Robert N. Reid to Mr. Bradford dated July 26, 1946, in which he agrees with Bradford's use of the collections as 'barter' material with the 'Danes and the French' as this 'will help raise our stock in those two countries, when they seem to be taking rather a poor view of the English!' [GI 17/1/2002]

Search terms: Ornament, Waist Ornament

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