Log in to see this item in other languages
Cotton shoulder cloth
Because of their relations before and during the colonial period with the east coast of Sumatra (the Karo Batak served as soldiers and worked on the plantations), the Karo had access to trading goods on the coast for a very long time. Here they bought white cotton rags and brought them to their wives in the mountains. In the 19th century the Karo were characterized by their blue clothing. The whit…
Type of item
- Object Type: cape
- cape
- Cape
Date
- voor 1929
Medium
- Material: cotton
- cotton (fiber)
- Cotton
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1929
Provenance
- 1929-01-01
- Schenking
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/155053
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- blue
- paint
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z