Textile of three woven strips. Black with wide red and narrow blue stripes with a white central band with red embroidery. [LKG 18/3/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Textile of three woven strips. Black with wide red and narrow blue stripes with a white central band with red embroidery. [LKG 18/3/2010]
Long description: Textile of three woven strips. Black with wide red and narrow blue stripes with a white central band with red embroidery. There are four red stripes on a black ground at each side, and three red stripes on black on either side of the embroidered central band. There is a thin blue stripe between these sets of five and three red stripes on each side, with four sets of three stripes over a central rectangle on each side of each blue stripe. The cloth has a fringed edge on each narrow end, in red, black and white material. The central band has been decorated with five sets of elongated red diamond desings, divided by horizontal bands of smaller elongated diamonds. [LKG 18/3/2010] [LKG 18/3/2010]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India
Cultural groups: Konyak Naga
Person: Field collector James Philip Mills; PRM source James Philip Mills
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1923
Date collected: February 1923
Acquisition information: Loaned: 1923 Donated: 1928
Materials and processes: Material Textile, Material Pigment, Material Wool Yarn Animal, Process Dyed, Process Woven, Process Embroidered
Dimensions: Width 822 mm, Length 1750 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1928.69.265

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