Mantles of Merit: Chin Textiles From Mandalay to Chittagong January 11, 2007

'Mantles of Merit' is the first major exhibition devoted to the sophisticated textiles from the Chin peoples, an ethnic minority group some two million strong who live in the hills of western Myanmar, northeastern India and eastern Bangladesh. It includes a variety of Chin ceremonial textiles, which are traditionally created on back-tension looms with homegrown cotton, flax or hemp, and often dyed with indigo or other locally produced natural dyes as well as historic and contemporary photographs taken during the curator's extensive fieldwork in the region.