Headcloth

Museum number:
18-1494
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3562
Description:
Headcloth; cotton batik in indigo and beige with “sawat” = double wings and tail feathers (Garuda) motif with two-headed “Garuda;” many other filler motifs; badly torn in two corners. 108.8 x 107 cm.
Donor:
Caroline Mytinger
Collection place:
Java, Indonesia
Verbatim coll. place:
Indonesia, Java
Collector:
Caroline Mytinger
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headcloths (headgear)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
July 22, 1980
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 108.8 centimeters and width 107 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Headcloth, accession number 18-1494, described as Headcloth; cotton batik in indigo and beige with “sawat” = double wings and tail feathers (Garuda) motif with two-headed “Garuda;” many other filler motifs; badly torn in two corners. 108.8 x 107 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headcloth, accession number 18-1494, described as Headcloth; cotton batik in indigo and beige with “sawat” = double wings and tail feathers (Garuda) motif with two-headed “Garuda;” many other filler motifs; badly torn in two corners. 108.8 x 107 cm.

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