The photograph shows a Chinese brocade incorporated into the Shuba worn by the girls and the pattern decorating the shuba in bought by the group that these girls belong to. The hats worn in the photograph are fur (possibly fox fur).
Slide of Golok girls in festival attire
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Press cutting about Mr. Horniman's trip to India and subsquent acquisitions for the Museum
object | ARC/HMG/PR/004/001/165
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London County Council: Fifth Annual Report of the Horniman Museum and Library, 1906
object | ARC/HMG/GOV/003/1906
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Carte de visite featuring photograph of unknown woman
object | ARC/HMG/HOR/015/021
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Slide of wind horses being thrown up in Sourje
object | ARC/BAL/002/004/021
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