Bag
This fine indigo-dyed cotton bag was woven on a back-strap loom. Cotton was grown locally but this bag incorporates strips of British-made red trade cloth. This type of bag was made by women to be worn by men to carry their tobacco pipes and money.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 9/1945/68
- Collection Class
- Containers
- Collection Area Region
- SE
- Material
- cottoncowrie shellsmetalindigo
- Common Name
- bag
- Simple Name
- bag
- Production County
- Golden Triangle, the border region between Thailand, Burma (Myanmar) and Laos.
- Production Country
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Production Year High
- 1945
