Kutch Memon aba marriage dress breast panel (106 x 83cm)

£ 680.00

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106 x 83 cm  //  3ft 6" x 2ft 8"

The Memon caste are muslim merchants who traditonlly inhabited Kutch on the Indian side of what is now the Indo-Pakistan border with Sindh. The remaining decorative embroidred piece, from what was once a yellow silk wedding dress, is not mounted to the fabric board as displayed here but rather it is sold loose.

• circa 1900

Ref. 17064


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