Two textiles · India, Naga, Angami · ID: 3034393

Name: Two textiles
SKU: 3034393
Availability: Discontinued

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.

The object Two textiles with the object ID 3034393 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 11.

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