- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- cloth
- Cultural groups
- Angami Naga
- 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, Process Stitched, Process Embroidered, Process Supplementary Weft Woven
- Dimensions
- Length 1635 mm, Width 935 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1946.7.80
- Research and responses
Although I have not seen this textile, it is likely that the decorative patterns are made using supplementary weft technique rather than embroidery. The two techniques are often confused in NE India and Burma textiles. Supplementary weft is in fact much more common but is often wrongly described as embroidery. [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]
Search terms: Clothing Textile, Furniture Dwelling, Insignia, Status, Textile, Body Cloth, Skirt, Shawl, Blanket, Status Object