Image

Unknown Maker, South Asian

Body cloth, Meiji Period

Description

Maker

Unknown

Culture

South Asian, Naga

Title

Body cloth

Year

Meiji Period

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Hand-spun and hand-woven cotton,
warp faced weave with an overlay of red supplemental weft-direction yarns inserted by embroidery

Techniques

Hand-spun and hand-woven cotton,
warp faced weave with an overlay of red supplemental weft-direction yarns inserted by embroidery

Dimensions

77.5 x 170.2 cm (30 1/2 x 67 inches)

Place

Geographic Reference: Myanmar; Geographic Reference: India

Type

Costume

Credit

Gift of Gail Martin

Object Number

2017.88.19

About

Body cloth

Geographic Reference: Myanmar; Geographic Reference: India

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Body cloth with the accession number of 2017.88.19. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

Feedback

We view our online collection as a living documents, and our records are frequently revised and enhanced. If you have additional information or have spotted an error, please send feedback to curatorial@risd.edu.