This tubular skirt was made and worn by a Khumi Chin woman. It has a dense supplementary weft woven pattern of interlocking black on red oval motifs (known as amsotsa nena). The skirt was woven in two parts and joined. The sides of the skirt have bands of pink and green false embroidery. the selvages are edged with tassels of cylindrical glass beads and fruit-shell halves.The Khumi are one of many Chin communities living in the Chin State of Myanmar bordering the Chittagong Hills of Bangladesh. Their rich textile tradition comprises mainly cloth woven on back-tension looms with colourful supplementary weft patterning - a technique that requires additional threads to be woven across the horizontal (weft) plane of the loom. The woven cloths worn by Khumi Chin are typically short skirts, breast cloths, headbands, loincloths, shoulder cloths, blankets and other ceremonial textiles.
