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Loincloth
An oblong piece of printed cotton - light and dark red - decorated at the corners and along one of the short sides with fringes of cotton cord. This kamisa is worn by women, mostly on festive occasions when it is decorated with fringe; it is pulled between the legs and tied around the waist. Children walk completely naked and the first thing one puts on them is a necklace. From the age of 8 to 10,…
Type of item
- Object Type: loincloth
- loincloth
- Loincloth
Date
- 1912
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
- 1912
- 1912/1912
Provenance
- 1912-05-01
- Schenking
Identifier
- RV-1817-44
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/718997
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- hair (material)
- rope
- string (thin rope)
- ambergris
Year
- 1912
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