- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- White cotton numnah (pad to put under a saddle) with rounded corners. Decorated with incised animal hide edging and red woollen textile [SM (Verve) 13/03/2014]
- Long description
- White cotton numnah (pad to put under a saddle) with rounded corners. Decorated with incised animal hide edging and red woollen textile . The hide panels are decorated with an incised scrolling design and perforations showing the red textile underneath. The object has ?cotton tape stitched around the edge. The tape is decorated with a chervon design in red, yellow, blue and white. [SM (Verve) 13/03/2014]
- Geographical reference
- Assam Manipur
- Person
- Field collector Edward Lynch Edgar
- PRM source Ipswich Museum
- PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1966
- Date collected
- By 1966
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1966
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Wool Textile Animal, Material Pigment, Process Incised, Process Woven, Process Perforated, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Width: max 500 mm, Length: max 648 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1966.1.1316.4
- Research and responses
For full text of Accession Book introduction (from Collections XVA Ipswich Ethnography A) see entry for 1966.1.1. See also 1966.1.1316 .1 for saddle and 1966.1.1316 .2 - .9 for saddle accessories [OD 14/6/2001].
Search terms: Animal Gear, Status, Textile, Saddle Blanket, Horse Accessory