Saddle bag made from goat hair, used to carry trade items such as salt.

Collection type: Object
Description: Saddle bag made from goat hair, used to carry trade items such as salt.
Long description: Saddle bag made from goat hair, used to carry trade items such as salt. The bag is made from three long strips of coarsely woven textile. The three strips have been sewn together along the length. Both ends have then been turned up forming two bag sections and stitched together along the sides and hemmed at the top. The textile is woven in stripes of dark brown and light brown / beige. The main colour of the bag is light brown / beige. One bag section has pieces of dark brown wool textile and a piece of brown and pink woven textile sewn to the bottom corners. This has possibly been done to repair holes in the corners. Both bag sections have a loop of woven wool on one side and a wool rope on the other. These loops and ropes are presumably for fixing the saddle bag to the back of a horse. [MdeA 7/6/2002]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Jammu and Kashmir State Ladakh Rina
Person: Maker Tsewang Dorje; Field collector Monisha Ahmed; PRM source Monisha Ahmed
Date / Period: Date made: 1986
Date collected: July 1998
Acquisition information: Purchased: 2001
Materials and processes: Material Goat Hair Textile Animal, Material Goat Hair Yarn Animal, Process Woven, Process Stitched, Process Repaired (local)
Dimensions: Width: max 480 mm, Length: max 1310 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2001.60.14 Other numbers: 14
Associated publications: Illustrated on page 79 (fig. 66) in Living Fabric. Weaving among the Nomads of the Ladakh Himalaya by Monisha Ahmed (Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2002) [JP 30/1/2003]

Search terms: Bag, Animal Gear, Status, Saddle Bag, Status Object, Horse Accessory

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