Two textiles
India, Naga, Angami
not available anymore
Size
M: 102 cm x 65 cm (skirt)
L: 195 cm x 7 cm (sash)
M: 40.2 inch x 25.6 inch (skirt)
L: 76.8 inch x 2.8 inch (sash)
Description
cotton, woman’s skirt, dyed in black, a beige-coloured band in the middle, decorated with fine woven patterns in red and green; additional: sash, worn over a man’s kilt, beige-coloured, embroidered with patterns and figures, slightly dam., embroidered patterns partly detached;
among the Angami, girls wove sashes, armlets and belts for their friends or lovers. If a girl or a young woman was good at weaving, she tended to be very popular among the young men.