1928.69.1693

Collection type

Object

Description

Woman's skirt of blue decorated with red lines and paired columns of lozenges worked in red wool supplementary weft.

Long description

Woman's skirt of blue decorated with red lines and paired columns of lozenges worked in red wool supplementary weft. The skirt is formed of two panels of blue cotton textile stitched together with blue yarn. There are eight evenly spaced red lines running lengthways, with three further red lines along each edge, including at the selvedge. Each panel also has ten sets of three red lines running widthways, although these do not match up across the two panels. One of the panels has nine paired columns of lozenges worked in red wool supplementary weft inlay, these arranged in three sets of three. This panel is also decorated with lines of red cotton yarn supplementary weft. The other panel has twenty-one paired columns of red wool lozenges, arranged in seven sets of three. There are also twenty short lines of red wool, and two of red cotton, worked into the lengthways red stripes. At each short edge there is a thin white line formed by a bundle of white supplementary weft threads. The warp ends have been twisted and knotted to form a fringe at both ends.

Geographical reference

India

Asia > Southern Asia > India

Nagaland; Changki village

Cultural groups

Ao Naga

Person

Field collector James Philip Mills

PRM source James Philip Mills

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1931

Date collected

1931

Acquisition information

Donated: 1934, uncertain

Materials and processes

Material Cotton Textile Plant, Material Cotton Yarn Plant, Process Woven, Process Dyed, Process Supplementary Weft Woven, Material Wool Yarn Animal, Process Stitched

Dimensions

Length: max 1292 mm, Width: Max 595 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1928.69.1693

Search terms: Clothing, Textile, Status, Skirt