Blanket

A149

From: India | Kohima

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Native Name Pfe
Object Number A149
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sema
Provenience India | Kohima
Date Made Collected 1900
Section Asian
Materials Cotton
Description

Pfe. Rectangular with nine panels. Seven central panels alternate between natural ground and black ground. Two natural panels have geometric embroidery in red and white. Two border panels are black with five horizontal orange stripes. Fringed at two ends with designs near the fringe including a compound band of orange and white on the black panels and red and black on the natural panels. Along the compound band are embroidered dots at both ends of three of the natural panels, with the fourth having dots at only one end.

Length 139 cm
Width 108 cm
Credit Line Gift of William Henry Furness 3rd, Hiram M. Hiller, and Alfred Craven Harrison Jr., 1900

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