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1928.69.276

Woman's black skirt with blue panel, decorated with red hair and red wool.


1928.69.276

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Collection type
Object
Description
Woman's black skirt with blue panel, decorated with red hair and red wool.
Long description
Woman's black skirt with blue panel, decorated with lines of supplementary weft in red-dyed dog's hair, red wool, and some yellow cotton yarn. The cloth is constructed from three panels stitched together: two outer black panels of different width and the blue band. The black panels have some warp threads in red and blue, with also some red and blue weft threads along the short edges. The blue panel is decorated with supplementary weft inlays in red-dyed dog's hair. The wider black panel is decorated with red wool and yellow yarn in short supplementary weft lines near to the selvedges. The narrower black panel has small supplementary weft designs in red wool along the warp stripe. The cloth has a fringe at both ends.
Geographical reference
Nagaland; Wokha
Cultural groups
Lotha Naga
Person
Field collector James Philip Mills
PRM source James Philip Mills
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1920
Date collected
9 March 1920
Acquisition information
Loaned: 1923 Donated: 1928
Materials and processes
Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Wool Yarn Animal, Process Dyed, Process Woven, Process Supplementary Weft Woven, Material Dog Hair Yarn Animal, Process Stitched
Dimensions
Length 1198 mm, Length 560 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1928.69.276
Associated publications
Lotha Naga Textiles & Patterns (1914 - 1947), Collective: Renchen Women Welfare Society; Wokha, Nagaland, 2010, Notes: PRM catalogue information, possibly with photographs of a slightly different cloth.

Search terms: Textile, Status, Clothing, Skirt