Textile

Museum number:
18-1557
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21180001557
Accession number:
Acc.4230
Description:
Cloth, ceremonial; cotton warp ikat with elongated anthropomorphic figures and geometric figures; snake motif along short borders; self fringe; red ground with white and purplish black dyes. Used in birth, fertility and planting ceremonies. 119 x 258 cm.
Donor:
Lawrence E. Dawson
Collection place:
Borneo, Indonesia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 18-1557, described as Cloth, ceremonial; cotton warp ikat with elongated anthropomorphic figures and geometric figures; snake motif along short borders; self fringe; red ground with white and purplish black dyes. Used in birth, fertility and planting ceremonies. 119 x 258 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 18-1557, described as Cloth, ceremonial; cotton warp ikat with elongated anthropomorphic figures and geometric figures; snake motif along short borders; self fringe; red ground with white and purplish black dyes. Used in birth, fertility and planting ceremonies. 119 x 258 cm.

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