Context (Production / use)
From Art Fund application:
'Ajungla Imchen is a young visual artist from the Lotha Naga community in Nagaland. She studied at Kala Bhavan, the famous art school at Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal. This textile piece manifests a fusion of traditions from these two places. The silk scarf [w]as embroidered using the kantha technique traditional to West Bengal. The motifs, however, are those of the artist's native Nagaland. This is one of a series of textile works made in 2009, one of which is held in the collections of National Museums Liverpool. For MAA and for the Another India exhibition, it is important as a work by a contemporary female artist from and[sic] Indigenous community in India, that shows an innovative use and reinterpretation of traditional motifs through a dialogue with techniques outside of Naga visual and material culture. Two pieces will be acquired by MAA and exhibited as a pair in Another India.'
Event Date 21/12/2016
Author: Remke Velden

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Dr Mark Elliott, Curator for Anthropology (Asia, Africa and Europe) on 27 September 2016. Acquired as part of the Art Fund's New Collecting Award to support MAA to build a collection of contemporary works by artists and makers from Indigenous communities in India. These acquisitions aim to unlock the potential of MAA's largely unrecognised collections from India, with new works forming the centrepiece of Another India, a major exhibition at MAA in 2017.
Made by Ajungla Imchen in 2009. For sale on behalf of the artist by Minhazz Majumdar, New Delhi,India.

Event Date 21/12/2016
Author: Remke Velden

Description (Physical description)
Blue silk textile panel or embroidered scarf. Coloured with vegetable dye and embroidered with cotton thread. Kantha Bengali technique with Naga motifs. Untitled (Naga kantha 1). Made by Ajungla Imchen, 2009.
Event Date 21/12/2016
Author: Remke Velden

Description (Display)
'Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia' 07/03/2017 - 22/04/2018 MAA exhibition label text reads:

Naga Fusion

Ajungla Imchen is an artist and designer from Nagaland who trained at Kala Bhavan in Shantiniketan, West Bengal. These textile works manifest a fusion of traditions from these two places.

Her designs, based on floral patterns and traditional motifs from her native Nagaland, were translated by women in villages around Shantiniketan into kantha embroidery - a traditional quilting craft from West Bengal. The intricate running stitch traditionally bound together layers of old textiles like saris to form a quilt. Here, it brings together indigenous and ‘folk’ traditions, creating an artform for another India.

Made by Ajungla Imchen, 2009 Nagaland and West Bengal
Purchased with Art Fund support, 2016 2016.216 & 2016.217

Event Date 22/3/2017
Author: Remke Velden

Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2017.2 | Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia
Event Date 8/3/2017
Author: Remke Velden

Description (Physical description)
Untitled (Naga kantha 1). Embroidered textile panel or scarf made by Ajungla Imchen. Rectangular length of light blue silk, embroidered with geometric patterns in pink, blue and brown; backed with metallic brown silk; Kantha Bengali technique with Naga motifs.
Event Date 18/3/2024
Author: Katrina Dring