Accession#	R-044
Artist	Raniben Vanka
Culture	Kachhi Rabari
Description	MATERIALS: Glass beads, cotton cloth, cotton threads and wooden sticks. CONSTRUCTION: Woven. A piece of cardboard is fixed over seven sticks and beaded. Beads are attached to fabric. Small looped Jali at bottom. MOTIFS: Diamond shapes in diagonal grid. COLOURS : Multicoloured with white red cloth. STYLE REMARKS: The Kachhi Rabari mod is always beaded. The fixing of beads to cloth is less common among Rabaris. The Rabari mod is rectangular with sticks standing up. Looped fringe is an old technique. CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: Worn over turbans during wedding ceremony. It resembles a crown. CULTURAL REMARKS: Among Rabaris only the boy wears a Mod. The girl wears a string which is sometimes beaded around head. Mod, Turban
Category	Ornaments
Object Name	Mod
Other Name	Turban
Sub-category	Men
Provenance	Bhuj-Kutch, Gujarat , India.
Search Terms	Mod Turban ornament Kachhi Rabari beadwork
Technique	Beadwork: Rabari

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Last modified on: February 22, 2013