mat

Original Name	banig
Materials	straw, dye
Catalog Description	Name: Banig:- mat of red, yellow, white and purple straw, The designs are in parallel bands, those predominatly yellow being the broadest. Two red corners. Native dyes. mats are used to sleep on, to spread on the floor for guests to sit on, as a table for food at a ceremony, as a musical instrument (see notes), and to wrap the dead in.