Red and black striped cloth with thin blue lines and fainter red weft stripes.

Collection type: Object
Description: Red and black striped cloth with thin blue lines and fainter red weft stripes.
Long description: Red and black striped cloth with thin blue lines and fainter red weft stripes. The cloth has five sets of three red warp stripes with broad back stripes dividing the sets of three. Narrow black stripes divide the groups of red stripes. Running lengthways on these narrow black stripes are parallel pairs of very thin blue stripes. These black stripes with blue detail are only used between the red stripes at the outer edges of the cloth. There are red and black tassels at each end of the cloth.
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Nagaland; Okotso village
Cultural groups: Lotha Naga
Person: Field collector James Philip Mills; PRM source James Philip Mills
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1920
Date collected: 26 March 1920
Acquisition information: Loaned: 1923 Donated: 1928
Materials and processes: Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Dyed, Process Woven
Dimensions: Width 1113 mm, Length 1570 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1928.69.272
Research and responses: Information from Dr Vibha Joshi, as published in the Renchen Women Welfare Society's 'Lotha Naga Textiles & Patterns': "Called Opvurüm. Used by rich man's wife. Also called Kyongsü."
Associated publications: Lotha Naga Textiles & Patterns (1914 - 1947), Collective: Renchen Women Welfare Society; Wokha, Nagaland, 2010, Notes: Photograph and PRM catalogue information

Search terms: Textile, Status, Clothing, Body Cloth

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