A Naga body cloth rongsusu

A Naga body cloth rongsusu
Ao, Nagaland
strip woven with five rows of red dyed cotton, the ends with tufts of natural and red dyed goat hair with applied cowrie shells,
98cm x 194 cm.

Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.

Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 278.

This cloth can only be worn by a man who has done the full series of Feasts of Merit and whose father and grandfather have done likewise.