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Chapter One. The Material Background |
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women's skirts, colour and length, Thenkoh villages |
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Similar variations were observable in women's fashions. The women and girls of Thenkoh villages wore narrow, oblong pieces of cloth wrapped round the waist, with one corner tucked in over the left hip. These skirts were about 10 inches wide and provided all the cover required by Konyak standards of decency; a woman would never take off her skirt in the presence of men, not even when bathing or fishing. Unmarried girls usually wore plain white or blue skirts, but married women preferred skirts with a pattern of narrow horizontal stripes in red and white. |
