| Accession# |
R-103 |
| Artist |
Kachhi Rabari |
| Culture |
Kachhi Rabari |
| Description |
MATERIALS: Cotton cloth, cotton threads, mirrors and tassels.
CONSTRUCTION: Hand stitches, embroidered: square chain, cretan, interlaced, buttonhole. couched and romanian stitches.
MOTIFS: Kali tak, popti, makodiyun, limbudi tak, jharmar, mokre, kagra tak, bandhkaanch, goltak, phuldi, sudo, vichhi, kothalia no gul.
COLOURS : Multicoloured on cream, black and red.
STYLE REMARKS: Conventional patterns of middle style.
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: The dowry bag was essential to namadic lifestyle, a lightwight and decorative means of bringing dowry goods to the in-laws.'
CULTURAL REMARKS: Smaller versions called kothali were used for smaller dowry items. A very large size, embroidered only on one end, was used to hold bedding. The kothalo was replaced by a metal trunk in the late 1970s.
Kothalo Bags, Dowry
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| Category |
Bags |
| Object Name |
Kothalo |
| Other Name |
Dowry Bag |
| Sub-category |
Bags, Dowry |
| Provenance |
Bocha Ta. Mundra, kutch, Gujarat, India. |
| Search Terms |
Kachhi Rabari
Kothalo
Kutch |
| Technique |
Embroidery :Rabari |
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