- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Red and black striped cloth with white central panel decorated with wax motifs. [ZM 13/5/2005]
- Cultural groups
- Ao Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1923
- Date collected
- November 1923
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 10/1924 Donated: 1928
- Materials and processes
- Material Textile, Material Pigment, Material Wax, Process Resist Dyed, Process Woven
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1928.69.713
- 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: 139, 141
Search terms: Clothing, Textile, Status, Figure, Body Cloth, Animal Figure
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