sarong, cotton; brown and white floral ground; finely worked designs of flowers and birds in blue, purple, yellow and red; batik technique; w. 1.4 M, l. 2.5o M.
Donor:
Mrs. James P. Heath and Ruth Mary Heath
Collection place:
Java, Indonesia
Verbatim coll. place:
Indonesia, central Java, Lasem
Collector:
James P. Heath and Ruth Mary Heath
Collection date:
July 1971
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sarongs
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
January 1, 1975
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 140 centimeters and length 250 centimeters
Comment:
sarong; note attached indicateds "batik tulis is still being done although not much. Lasem is now a ghost town, because people (young) are flocking to big cities, like Semarang in Central Java and Surabaja. women who made it is +/- 80 years old. used to be a very rich town (home ?) of wealthy Chinese people so still many antique