Man's handwoven embroidered shawl in undyed cream cotton, with narrow warp stripes in black and red at intervals along the length. At each end of the shawl for about a third of the length and at intervals between these stripes are embroidere decorative motifs in rows in green, red, blue and brown. Tufts in these colours at each end where the warps are formed into fringes.
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