Jacket with sleeves and upper part made of indigo cloth and lower part made of red-dyed ? dog's hair on blue warp. The top portion of this red-coloured area includes discontinous supplementary weft patterning at the top.

Collection type: Object
Description: Jacket with sleeves and upper part made of indigo cloth and lower part made of red-dyed ? dog's hair on blue warp. The top portion of this red-coloured area includes discontinous supplementary weft patterning at the top.
Geographical reference: Myanmar (Burma)
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma); Kachin State Triangle (between Mali Hka [Malika] and Nmai Hka [Mekha] rivers) Lower Nmai Hka [Mekha] river Ngawchang valley
Cultural groups: Maru
Person: Field collector James Henry Green; PRM source James Henry Green
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1934
Date collected: By 1934 [By 1931 ?*]
Acquisition information: Donated: 1934
Materials and processes: Material Textile, Material Pigment, Material Dog Hair Textile Animal, Process Dyed, Process Spun, Process Woven, Process Supplementary Weft Woven, Process Stitched
Dimensions: Length 470 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1934.81.95
Research and responses: Compare jacket collected in Myitkyina in 1996 by Sandra Dudley & Elizabeth Dell, and now in Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Department of Non-Western Art (Green Centre). [SHD 5/3/2001]
What is described as embroidery in the accession book entry is in fact discontinuous supplementary weft. [SHD 13/2/2001]
Green travelled extensively in the Triangle area (the first European to do so in the Northern Triangle) from 1926 onwards, as Recruitment Officer for the Burma Rifles Regiment and later as Northeast Frontier Intelligence Officer. He collected extensively in the Triangle and wrote a Cambridge dissertation on its peoples. [SHD 5/2/2001]

Search terms: Clothing Textile, Jacket