- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Groin cover
- Cultural groups
- Sümi Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1919
- Date collected
- By 1919
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 12/1919 Donated: 1928
- Materials and processes
- Material Textile, Material Cowrie Shell, Process Woven
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1923.84.493
- Associated publications
- Reproduced in colour on page 273 of The Nagas - Hill Peoples of Northeast India: Society, Culture and the Colonial Encounter, by Julian Jacobs with Alan Macfarlane, Sarah Harrison and Anita Herle (London: Thames and Hudson, 1990). [SM 20/10/2011]
Search terms: Clothing, Ritual and Ceremonial, Status, Groin-cover
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