- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Lengta groin cover
- Cultural groups
- Ao Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1919
- Date collected
- By 1919
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1919, uncertain Donated: 1923, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Textile, Material Cowrie Shell, Material Wool Yarn Animal, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Woven
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1923.84.748
- 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
Search terms: Clothing, Status, Groin-cover
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