Gamucha (sweat towel) of light brown cotton with patterned bands
- Title
- Gamucha (sweat towel) of light brown cotton with patterned bands
- LC Subject
- accessories (object genre)
- Donor
- Simmerville, Clara L.
- Description
- Gamucha (sweat towel) of light brown cotton with patterned bands at each end of stripes, ikat floral motifs and blurred shapes; main body has tiny floral motifs embroidered in green, white, red and yellow; bands are mainly in blue, black, red and green ikat design; fringed ends.
- Motif
- Ikat Floral motif
- Work Type
- shawls
- Location
- Odisha >> India
- Date
- 1901/2000
- Identifier
- 1990.002.044
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Cotton
- Technique
- Hand-woven Hand-loomed
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Gamucha translates as sweat towel. Most Gamucha have stripe and check pattern in red, orange or green. They are used by men as a towel after bathing, and as a shawl worn over the shoulder to dry sweat. Menial laborers and farm workers wear them as a head scarf or loin cloth. Gamucha can also be turned into a bola-like weapon to protect against wild animals by knotting a large stone into one end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamucha
