Minneapolis Institute of Art

Man's turban (Pagri)

India (Rajasthan)

Date

c. 1850

Medium

Silk, metallic threads, tied resist dye

Department

Asian Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Women wore head coverings out of modesty; men wore them out of pride. In India and Pakistan, a man's turban (pagri) was an assertion of his dignity, inseparable from his sense of honor. The turbans on display are particularly fine examples of various resist-dyeing techniques known generically in the West as 'tie dye.' Many tie-dyed designs were worn equally by men and women, their suitability determined by season and occasion rather than gender. Asia

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