Shawl
- Museum number:
- 18-433
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21180000433
- Accession number:
- Acc.2156
- Description:
- Shawl; silver brocade on red cotton; hand woven. Native name: "Salendang Balapak".
- Donor:
- Nancy Tanner and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Sumatra, Indonesia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Indonesia; West Sumatra; Padang Pandjang(?); Pandai Sikat; Minangkabau
- Culture or time period:
- Minangkabau
- Collector:
- Nancy Tanner and Rivai Sjarif
- Collection date:
- February 1965
- Materials:
- Cotton (textile)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Shawls and Textiles (visual works)
- Function:
- 2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
- Accession date:
- 1966
- Context of use:
- Woven on loom at home; worn by women at weddings when guest or bridesmaid; may be worn as hat or sash across chest. Made by women.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- width 170 centimeters and length 42 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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