Shoulder ornament of blue cloth embroidered with dyed red dog hair and with red goat hair fringe. Strands of goat hair are wrapped with yellow orchid stem at the top. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/8/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Shoulder ornament of blue cloth embroidered with dyed red dog hair and with red goat hair fringe. Strands of goat hair are wrapped with yellow orchid stem at the top. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/8/2005]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Nagaland
Cultural groups: Chang Naga
Person: Field collector George Aitken Fitzadam-Ormiston; PRM source Ellen Margaret Fitzadam-Ormiston
Date / Period: Date made: Circa by 1895
Date collected: circa 1895
Acquisition information: Donated: 1934
Materials and processes: Material Textile, Material Goat Hair Animal, Material Dog Hair Animal, Material Pigment, Material Orchid Stem Plant, Process Dyed, Process Embroidered, Process Woven
Dimensions: Length: max 1450 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1934.12.11
Research and responses: According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, the Naga Hills are part of the complex mountain barrier on the border of India and Myanmar (Burma) and are a northern extension of the Arakan Yoma system. The part of
the range within India constituted the Naga Hills district of Assam until 1961 and since 1963 has been part of Nagaland. [CW 29/3/2000]

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