- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Unfinished loin cloth.
- Cultural groups
- Ao Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1923
- Date collected
- April 1923
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 10/1923 Donated: 1928
- Materials and processes
- Material Textile, Material Pigment, Material Wool Yarn Animal, Process Woven, Process Dyed, Process Embroidered
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1928.69.479
- Associated publications
- Reference: Naga Textiles Design, Technique, Meaning and Effect of a Local Craft Tradition in Northeast India, Main author: Marion Wettstein; Stuttgart, 2014, Page: 148, 150
Search terms: Textile, Clothing, Status, Groin-cover
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