Wrap

Museum number:
18-1116
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21180001116
Accession number:
Acc.3377
Description:
Textile; dark brown cotton cloth, two loom widths sewn together; colums of ikat in alternating white and dark red abstract and geometric figures based loosely on zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures; self fringe. Tourist version of traditional Sumba cloth. Width 1.18 m. Length 1.90 m. not including fringe.
Donor:
Evelyn B. Loring
Collection place:
Sumba, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1978
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Wrap, accession number 18-1116, described as Textile; dark brown cotton cloth, two loom widths sewn together; colums of ikat in alternating white and dark red abstract and geometric figures based loosely on zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures; self fringe. Tourist version of traditional Sumba cloth. Width 1.18 m. Length 1.90 m. not including fringe.

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