Textile; sarong?

Museum number:
18-1728
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Alternate number:
MVC-0377 (previous number (MVC number, Mossman-Vitale collection))
Accession number:
Acc.4734
Description:
Cloth; 105 cm x 250 cm; fine cotton; seamed at two ends by sewing machine; batik; multicolored brown ground, red, purple, green and blue; irregular pebble-like forms flow around intricate patterned islands; geometric and floral pattersn overall.
Donor:
Kathleen Vitale and Paul Vitale
Collection place:
Indonesia
Verbatim coll. place:
Indonesia?
Collector:
Rachel Gould Mossman
Collection date:
1960-1970
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Metal
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sarongs
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
June 23, 2006
Context of use:
woman’s wrap-around garment “Probably purchased in Singapor, 1963” fide Kathleen Vitale.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 105 centimeters and length 250 centimeters
Comment:
Conservation: Good
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile; sarong?, accession number 18-1728, described as Cloth; 105 cm x 250 cm; fine cotton; seamed at two ends by sewing machine; batik; multicolored brown ground, red, purple, green and blue; irregular pebble-like forms flow around intricate patterned islands; geometric and floral pattersn overall.

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