cloth

Collection type: Object
Description: cloth
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Mizoram Mizo [Lushai] Hills
Cultural groups: Thado
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, Process Spun, Process Dyed, Process Woven
Object numbers: Accession number: 1946.7.75.1 Other PRM accession number: 1946.7.75a
Research and responses: the 'tartan'-style pattern referred to is common in Chin (and Kachin) textiles and appears to have been so for a long period. It is most unlikely it was in fact inspired by Scottish plaid [SHD 7/6/2000] 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]

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