Loom

Museum number:
18-1704
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21180001704
Accession number:
Acc.4511
Description:
Loom with traditional Sumba cloth still in place; cloth in supplementary weft and ikat in dragon and red alligator motifs
Donor:
Jill Forshee
Collection place:
Sumba, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dragons and Looms (textile tools)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Comment:
Collected by Jill Forshee
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Loom, accession number 18-1704, described as Loom with traditional Sumba cloth still in place; cloth in supplementary weft and ikat in dragon and red alligator motifs
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Loom, accession number 18-1704, described as Loom with traditional Sumba cloth still in place; cloth in supplementary weft and ikat in dragon and red alligator motifs

Tools