Blue-black body-cloth with thin stripes and broader blue bands decorated in red and yellow. [ZM 06/09/2006]

Collection type: Object
Description: Blue-black body-cloth with thin stripes and broader blue bands decorated in red and yellow. [ZM 06/09/2006]
Long description: Blue-black body-cloth with thin stripes and broader blue bands decorated in red and yellow. The cloth is constructed from nine panels stitched together; two striped panels, four black panels and three blue stripes. The thin blue stripes are decorated with 11 or 13 red woollen zigzag lines in a supplementary weft. The black panels at either side have three thin blue stripes, these stripes are embroidered on one side only with red and black diamond design. The sides of the cloth are decorated with red and yellow wool short supplementary weft lines. [MJD 4/2/2010]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Nagaland
Cultural groups: Lotha Naga
Person: Field collector James Philip Mills; PRM source James Philip Mills
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1930
Date collected: August 1930
Acquisition information: Donated: 1930
Materials and processes: Material Textile, Material Yarn, Process Woven, Process Stitched, Process Supplementary Weft Woven
Dimensions: Length 1610 mm, Width 1430 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1928.69.1342

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